#14386·webpack

Webpack-native parallelism to obviate the need for the (unmaintained?) parallel-webpack package

Author: MartinFalaticCreated Oct 1, 2021Updated Sep 6, 2026
Labelshelp wantedwebpack-6

Feature request

Per the webpack documentation , the package parallel-webpack is recommended to optimize multiple compilations. However, this package is increasingly outdated (it's not even specified for webpack 5). It would be good to have such functionality as a part of webpack itself, without relying on an outside project (that may itself be abandoned) to offer such support.

What is the expected behavior?

Webpack-native parallelism

What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?

The recommended package no longer appears to be actively maintained

How should this be implemented in your opinion?

I am not a lawyer, but the license of parallel-webpack suggests it might be possible to fork it directly.

Are you willing to work on this yourself?

not at this time

Related issue

https://github.com/trivago/parallel-webpack/issues/107