This book is aimed at experienced JavaScript developers, designed to take you through the development and production of a specific example project through step-by-step processes. By the time you get to the end of this guide, you should be able to fully set up and deploy a working bundled application.

This chapter will introduce you to Webpack—specifically, Webpack version 5. It will include an overview of the central concepts around Webpack and how it is used. 

This chapter is aimed at programmers who are new to Webpack and Webpack 5. The initial setup will be covered in this chapter, as well as an overview of the process, and you will be shown how to deploy your first bundled application. 

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• The fundamentals of Webpack 5
• Setting up Webpack
• Creating a sample project