FAQ

Why is webpack a good idea for electron?

Electron apps face huge hurdles when it comes to matching native performance. There's a number of reasons for that. One of those issues is that a main electron app does not have Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation. No optimizations are made to code performance. require() is really slow. Webpack helps us reduce the amount of calls made to require by bundling all our code (when possible) into single file. Atom is slow primarily because it makes so many require statements.