Echo JS 0.11.0

Man, the grammar in the article is pretty bad...

Anyway, I don't think I'll use it until it'll have tree-shaking, but kudos for the effort. Creating a (decent) modern bundler isn't an easy task at all.

Ah, and another thing: referencing the project's root with "~". Really not a fan of it. I won't probably never load a module from the home directory, but this is messing with a widely estabilished convention.

I'm relatively sure the author has exposure to .Net as the tilde is used as project root the too.  It doesn't work out autosub for profile/home in node currently in any of the path or FS modules.

The tilde is also a symbol referring to the user's home folder on Unix systems.

I know... I work with Windows, Linux and Mac on a daily basis.  I was just pointing it out in context as to why that was chosen.  It *could* also be thought of as the *home* for the application itself.

I even mentioned that node specifically doesn't do anything with tilde in the fs or path modules, even in a unixy environment.

thank man for the support :) that is exactly why we chose it. because we come from.Net background.

to answer the OP, try to check how many npm packages like `app-root-path` are trying to solve this big issue and you will get a better idea about the reasoning behind it.

A lot of negativity here, which bums me out. I think Fusebox looks really promising and I'm definitely going to consider it  for future projects as a means of sidestepping webpack's complexity.

No code splitting, tree shaking and HMR :/
Webpack is still the only way.

1) We support HMR
2) We have different approaches.You can split your code as much as you like, creating bundles using arithmetic instructions http://fuse-box.org/#arithmetic-instructions

3) WebPack tree-sharking works poorly. We are working on a universal solution that will support CommonJS tree-shaking.

igl, we do have HMR
http://fuse-box.org/#dev-server-and-hmr

please also check our seed projects that already use it like
https://github.com/fuse-box/fuse-box-express-seed
https://github.com/fuse-box/fuse-box-vue-seed

as for code splitting, yes we have it, we call it multi-entry bundles, sorry for the lack of docs it will be addressed ASAP.

as for tree shaking, we are working on tackling this issue in a sensable way.

please give FuseBox a try, you will love it and see how easy, fast and powerful it is :)

The docs doesn't seem to mention anything like Webpack's HMR API - i.e. module.hot.accept(). I hope you are not confusing HMR with reload-on-save?

Hello!
No, We are not confusing it with anything.

There is a great PR going on. We are going to introduce HMR plugins, that will allow users to specify their own logic. Without altering the code.

https://github.com/fuse-box/fuse-box/pull/158