Zackary Jackson
Software Architect at web-infra-dev webpack, module-federation
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZackary Jackson is a Software Architect and long-standing core maintainer of Webpack, best known as the inventor and creator of Module Federation and Universal SSR patterns that enable micro-frontend and code-sharing architectures at scale. With nine years of experience driving JavaScript orchestration, he designs build and runtime systems that solve problems conventional tooling cannot, including interleaved webpack runtime orchestration and a fragment caching solution that yielded 1000% performance gains. He’s a prolific open-source author whose tooling and plugins are used across major companies and projects—Facebook, Microsoft, React, Airbnb, Bloomberg, Kubernetes, and many more—and has contributed deeply to projects like redux-first-router, react-universal-component, and Module Federation core. Equally at home refactoring monoliths into micro-frontends or digesting 100M+ line codebases, he blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and principled leadership to improve engineers’ lives by challenging accepted norms.
9 years of coding experience
American International School Of Cape Town
Afrikaans, French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (37)
babel610
url-routing10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
nextjs10
bundle10
redux10
webpack10
federation10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
babel-core10
babeljs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
module-federation/core
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Module Federation is a concept that allows developers to share code and resources across multiple JavaScript applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:134 releases, 720 reviews, 433 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Zackary primarily contributed to the implementation of the Module Federation concept within a Next.js application, which involved creating a system for sharing code and resources across multiple JavaScript applications. The user developed several components, including functions for managing remote modules and integrating them into the Next.js build process. Their work included defining the build configuration, managing dependencies, and creating various utilities like a sharing and dynamic module loader to support SSR-compatible module federation.
reactfederationmodule-federationwebpacktypescript
faceyspacey/react-universal-component
May 2018 - Jun 2019
🚀 The final answer to a React Universal Component: simultaneous SSR + Code Splitting
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 36 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Zackary primarily contributed to the React Universal Component library, focusing on improvements to the build and SSR processes. They addressed issues with chunk name handling, updated flow types, and fixed a critical typo in the babel plugin checker. The user also refactored core module dependencies, and updated the library to be compatible with React 16.3 and later versions. They also incorporated changes to improve hot module reloading.
reactansweruniversal-reactprerendercode-splitting
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