Using webpack with TypeScript

Webpack is a versatile tool widely used in modern projects to optimize application resources, enhancing efficiency across devices by compiling and bundling modules into a single file, thus reducing HTTP requests and boosting performance. It compiles TypeScript into browser-friendly JavaScript and transforms SASS and LESS files into a singular CSS bundle using loaders. This guide walks through setting up webpack to compile TypeScript, bundle source code, and utilize plugins, including HtmlWebpackPlugin for HTML generation and MiniCssExtractPlugin for CSS bundling. It also covers minifying CSS and JavaScript with plugins like CssMinimizerPlugin and TerserPlugin, and copying assets using CopyWebpackPlugin. Debugging is facilitated through source maps that map original source files to the bundled output. The tutorial emphasizes the growing importance of webpack for optimizing TypeScript applications and provides step-by-step instructions for integrating webpack plugins to enhance resource optimization and debugging capabilities.