symfony/webpack-encore

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Webpack Encore is a JavaScript library providing a simple, powerful API on top of Webpack for bundling JavaScript, compiling and minifying CSS/JS assets, and managing frontend builds. It is developed by Symfony but usable in any application, and is now in low-maintenance mode with Symfony recommending migration to Symfony Reprise or AssetMapper.

Use cases

• bundle javascript and css assets with a simple webpack api
• compile sass and less stylesheets in a web project
• set up react or vue with babel and webpack easily
• version and hash assets for cache busting
• enable hot module replacement during development
• split javascript code into async chunks
• minify javascript and css for production

When to choose

• you have an existing Symfony app already built on Encore
• you want a simplified, opinionated wrapper around Webpack for asset compilation
• you need Sass, Less, PostCSS, TypeScript, React or Vue support with minimal config
• you want asset versioning, code splitting and HMR without hand-writing Webpack config

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - Symfony recommends AssetMapper or Symfony Reprise (Vite/Rsbuild) instead
• you need a bundler with active feature development, since Encore is in low-maintenance mode
• you want a no-build-step asset system - AssetMapper runs entirely in PHP
• your project does not use Node.js

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library · maturity maintenance

build-tool developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools cross-platform webpack asset-bundling symfony css-preprocessors babel sass postcss react vue typescript code-splitting asset-versioning hot-module-replacement nodejs javascript

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