In the land of JavaScript, no one is king for long.

Just last year Grunt was effectively dethroned by Gulp. And now, just as Gulp and Browserify are finally reaching critical mass, Webpack threatens to unseat them both. Webpack offers enough power out of the box that you typically don’t need Grunt or Gulp at all.

Build tooling shouldn’t require a custom build from the ground up. It should provide customization points that allow you to handle the few things that make you truly unique.