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I hate to break it to you but WebPack is also riding the peak of a hype cycle right now.

It doesn't natively support the future ES6-module standard.

Once browsers start providing native module loading support, devs will likely migrate en masse to JSPM. JSPM is the (previously missing) package manager for front-end libraries. It supports transpiling (babel, traceur, typescript) out of the box and also handles bundling.

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WebPack 2.0 does support ES6 module import statements. In fact, it does tree shaking now too, but only if you use import {x} from foo.

Oh, cool. I didn't realize webpack 2 was released with ES6 module support.

Import {x} from 'foo'

Looks like it's going to be the spec for ES6 modules anyway so it's probably a good thing that you have to it for tree shaking.

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