Vendor location question

[adampatterson]

I use Webpack but I don't process URLs. I load Bower assets from a publicly accessible folder. While things concatenated and minified from NPM are loaded through a non-publicly accessible npm_modiules folder and my build pulls out any JS that I might bundle.

I have a lot of pages that may or may not require some scripts so I deal with these dependencies on my own.

If I migrate away from Bower, am I not then forced to process URLs so that assets are correctly processed?

I also find that WebPack also causes issues when Uglify is used and that effects the way scripts have to be written and processed so it's potentially a large undertaking dealing with the older vanilla JS scripts.