Bundlers and build tools
Comes up in: Web fundamentals, Recruiter screen
This concept is being written. It gets the full five steps — explanation, predict, interview angle, practice with tests, and review cards. Here is exactly what it will cover, so you can study it elsewhere in the meantime.
What it covers
- what bundlers do (module graph, transforms, chunking, minification, source maps)
- Vite (Rolldown + Oxc since Vite 8), webpack, Turbopack, Rspack — facts
- dev server HMR
- module federation link
Words you will know
What you will practise
- inspect chunks of a Vite build
Interview questions this answers
- What does a bundler do?
- Describe a good CI/CD pipeline for a frontend app.