Is it normal to do a single-file build of a project?

Question

Node.js

Good afternoon. Is it normal practice to assemble a backend project on Express or on something else into one bundle for production, for example? webpack and so on

Answer 1

Definitely not normal. But maybe you want to protect the code from client encroachment by simulating compilation ... well, such a kind of perversion.

Answer 2

I don't see any evidence for this.

Answer 3

And what's the point in that?
I would understand why combine everything into one file for PHP (to speed up - you don’t need to include a bunch of files), but all server files in JavaScript (express, koa, etc.) are loaded at startup and hang in memory all the time the server is running.

Answer 4

If the project uses server rendering for the same React, then I don’t see any other ways, except for building with Webpack - the node does not know about JSX natively.