Interest in Contributing to "Unified Webpack Dev Tools" for GSoC 2025

[somil14]

Hello Webpack Team,

I am excited to contribute to Webpack as part of Google Summer of Code 2025, i.e., the "Unified Webpack Dev Tools" project. I am familiar with JavaScript, Node.js, Webpack, and frontend build tooling, and I regularly use Webpack in my projects.

I have gone through the project requirements and understand that the objective is to merge webpack-dev-server, webpack-hot-middleware, and webpack-dev-middleware into a stronger framework. I would be more than happy to assist with:

Splitting client and hot logic into a separate middleware package (webpack-hmr-middleware).
Shifting appropriate options and logic from webpack-hot-middleware into webpack-hmr-middleware.
Helping in converting webpack-dev-server to a monorepo structure.
I have already started reviewing the linked repositories and would appreciate any guidance on good first issues or related documentation to start with. Are there any recommendations on particular issues or areas to start with first?

I am excited to contribute and collaborate with the Webpack community!

Best
Somil Athole

[alexander-akait]

Please don't duplicate #19288