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What are some cool webpack features you love, but aren't being used by others actively?

This is a tough one. Perhaps hashing?

Any cool webpack tricks that most beginner/intermediates tend to overlook?

Plenty. I've tried to cover these in an upcoming guide.

I really like the AppCache manifest plugin, although it will be deprecated by the wide-spread adoption of ServiceWorkers. The AppCache manifest, however, still does a pretty decent job when you're developing a mobile app.

Regarding webpack tricks: I think, many developers don't know how to leverage file hashing correctly. If done right, the user only needs to download a small file after you've deployed a new release. If done wrong, the user needs to download all files again. For instance, you can store some information about the compilation in a webpack.records.json. With this information, webpack is able to re-use ids which prevents file hashes from being changed. @sokra has some interesting slides on this topic.

What are some cool webpack features you love, but aren't being used by others actively?

• The target option. Compile to node.js and hot update your node.js application.
• That HMR can be used in production too (Would really love to see someone doing this).
• The chunk optimization plugins

Any cool webpack tricks that most beginner/intermediates tend to overlook?

90% of the features. Code Splitting, MultiCompiler, [chunkhash], Records are propably the most important ones.