In this chapter, we covered the basic tools and software that support web platforms. Web platforms are supported by numerous kinds of ecosystems, including programming languages that alternate between the de facto standard and package managers. While JavaScript is the primary language that's used in web applications, TypeScript is gaining popularity rapidly because of its safety and scalability.
Due to the way web platforms work, bundling all the resources into a portable format is required if we wish to publish the application. For machine learning applications in particular, it is common to have multiple types of resources in an application, such as images, audio, and movies, that can be used for training and prediction. Module bundlers can help us build the final artifacts. We looked at Parcel and Webpack so that we can use them to build a publishable format for...
