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The big build-tool bonanza

The big build-tool bonanza

Google web.dev 9 July 2020

Episode Description

- Surma’s photo challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTiwExnIe6/

- https://web.dev/live happened!

- Jake's image compression talk → https://goo.gle/2NZ4erd

- Jake & Jason write build plugins → https://goo.gle/2CajSNF

- https://tooling.report goes live!

- webpack's weird behaviour with entry points → https://goo.gle/3iEQfVl

- Rollup's docs → https://rollupjs.org/

- Rollup's issues with hashing → https://goo.gle/3gC4rwS

- Import maps → https://goo.gle/38CFfn8

- SystemJS import maps → https://goo.gle/31TAxA2

- Hash cascading → https://goo.gle/2VWXWwG 

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