Reusing Node.js modules
As I mentioned earlier, there will be a step in our development process called building. During this step, our build script will take our source files and all our Node.js dependency packages and transform them into a single file that web browsers can successfully execute. The most important part of this building process is called packaging. But what do we need to package and why? Let's think about it. I briefly mentioned earlier that we're not creating a Node.js application, but yet we're talking about reusing Node.js modules. Does this mean that we'll be reusing Node.js modules in a nonNode.js application? Is that even possible? It turns out that there is a way of doing this.
Webpack is a tool used for bundling all your dependency files together in such a way that you can reuse Node.js modules in client-side JavaScript applications. You can learn more about Webpack at http://webpack.js.org. To install Webpack, run the following command from inside the ~/snapterest...
