webpack vs webpack-cli

webpack-cli vs webpack: What are the differences?

What is webpack-cli? CLI for webpack & friends. CLI for webpack & friends.

What is webpack? Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Packs CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Support loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.

webpack-cli and webpack can be primarily classified as "npm Packages" tools.

webpack-cli and webpack are both open source tools. webpack with 59.4K GitHub stars and 8.02K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than webpack-cli with 2.24K GitHub stars and 485 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, webpack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 890 company stacks & 559 developers stacks; compared to webpack-cli, which is listed in 550 company stacks and 256 developer stacks.