Is this alive in 2025?

[lkraav]

#234 was locked for collab, but researching how to move out of a koa-webpack setup to something webpack@5 is somewhat unclear, even with a bunch of AI discussion.

shellscape/koa-webpack#134 (comment) points to webpack-plugin-serve, but it seems this repo hasn't received a touch in 3 years.

Has everybody moved on to something else?

My use case is getting HMR for a React app SSR-d with Koa.

Documentation here suggests launching webpack at

webpack-plugin-serve/README.md

Lines 82 to 89 in b19fce1

	And run `webpack`:
	```console
	$ npx wp
	...
	⬡ wps: Server Listening on: http://[::]:55555
	...
	```

but AFAICT I want to continue to launch our nodemon setup like

{
  "scripts": {
    "development": "nodemon --watch src/server --watch src/client/webpack.dev.config.js src/server/app.js"
  }
}

Should I just aim for Vite, or native webpack@5 tooling in 2025? 🙏

[shellscape]

This project still has around 15k weekly downloads, so it's still alive, but mostly I'd wager for people still on webpack v4.

There's very little reason to use webpack in 2025. Even webpack v5 is considered tech debt where I've worked for the last few years - and they're right. Use vite.