Recently I published a new open-source webpack loader named smart-source-map-loader to enable Webpack to load the source maps from existing compiled code. Now you might be thinking, there’s already a loader for that, what makes this alternative “smart”?

Recently I decided to try out webpack as a replacement for Browserify, and it didn’t disappoint! Out-of-the-box, webpack even support’s AMD, so RequireJS-based libraries can be used as-is. This got me thinking, jQuery switched to RequireJS a while back for their source code and build process, so I questioned:

Could webpack be used to load individual jQuery modules?

Today I have released AMD define factory patcher webpack loader as open source and available on NPM. It is a webpack loader aimed at solving a problem that some AMD-based JavaScript libraries have developed which renders them incompatible with webpack.