consider using webpack-merge to simplify webpack config about meatier HOT 1 CLOSED

As a personal preference, I like webpack configs to be as big & verbose & easy to read as possible. Back in the day I read every single webpack config on github to arrive at the current setup & the biggest thing I learned from the exercise was that folks who tried to be cute & save a few lines of code had really difficult-to-grok configs (https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit/blob/master/tools/webpack.config.js). Size is irrelevant since it'll never make it to the client, but comprehension is critical since webpack is freaking complicated. The only benefit is maybe not having to repeat the change in 1 other place, but then again, it could mean you have to refactor something out of the base config & into an environmental config, which means you're at a net loss compared to separate dumb configs.

from meatier.