[Pkg-javascript-devel] How to use Debian Buster for developing with Webpack

[Ben Finney]

Howdy all,

I am thoroughly confused by the current state of Webpack in Buster. What
Debian Buster packages should I be installing, to get Webpack working on
a code base?

There are a number of packages in Buster that have ‘webpack’ in the
name, but none of them seem to be Webpack itself. Is there such a thing?

For setting up a web development environment, the internet is awash in
instructions akin to “just run this command that will download stuff
from arbitrary places for you to run”. Of course, I want to do it with
Debian packages instead.

So those instructions are only confusing to me, because they almost
never spell out exactly what packages are in the dependency chain.

What do I need from Debian Buster, in order to feed a bunch of
JavaScript modules to Webpack?

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Ben Finney