Javascript in 2015
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters credit it with opening their eyes to JSPM and using it to choose build systems.
What it is
A short screencast tour of JSPM, SystemJS and ES6 features, building a small app with the then-new JavaScript module and package tooling. It shows how JSPM works as a package manager, bundler and loader.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec mrspeaker · 2015-04 · on “Deploying ECMAScript 6”
My favourite way is via JSPM and live-server. I got into that after watching this amazing dev video: [this video]
Strong rec hardwaresofton · 2016-02 · on “What's New in Webpack 2”
I regularly use JSPM (with systemJS) for new projects, and I've liked it a lot. Back when webpack first came out, I struggled a little bit with figuring out what it actually did. While I understand now, I am not why I would want to (or you) switch from JSPM to webpack. I don't see any features that webpack has that JSPM doesn't (and JSPM offered ES6 support well before of course, with babel on by default). I like to use JSPM because of how relatively easy everything fits together -- and how straightforward it is to use and configure. For those not familiar, JSPM is a package manager, module bundler, and module loader all in one for javascript applications. This means you can: jspm install <p
Strong rec hardwaresofton · 2017-08 · on “Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative”
If you're looking for alternatives to Webpack, please also check out JSPM (a good short description might be "preprocessing system + package manager + systemjs"): [LINK] It takes a little more to get it to work with vue (the plugin that makes .vue files work is older and unsupported nowadays), but I use it just fine, with my template, styling and component files separated (I wrote a little thing: [LINK] ) If you dislike how complex webpack is, you'll like JSPM -- here's the video that got me hooked (it's pretty old but still valid): [this video]
Recommends bkurtz13 · 2015-07 · on “Browserify vs. Webpack – Configuration isn't evil”
As if the churn wasn't already bad enough, I've recently started using JSPM[1] and it's pretty awesome. I'm writing ES6+ code with hot reloading react components. If you're trying to decide between build systems I would recommend checking it out, and watching this video[2] for a nice overview. [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]