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Enable sourcemaps with webpack for dev and prod environments

Sourcemaps can be a handy tool during development and production for the following reasons:

  • Provide us better means to debug our applications as we can still examine the original source code over generated one.

  • Allow us to see exactly on which line the error occurred.

  • Allow us to see the nice folder structure of your project in the chrome devtools as show below.

webpack-devtools


development environment - gives better performance

{
    devtool: 'inline-source-map'
}

production environment - keeps the bundle size small.

{
  devtool: 'source-map'
}