[TaskRequest] steem-editor – Upgrade webpack and babel

Right now steem-editor is using babel 6 and webpack 2, both relatively old versions of the tools. They are used to compile, bundle and compress all files needed for the editor, so that users have a fast working library.

We want to upgrade to babel 7 and webpack 4. This will require the reword of some build process components and might be a trial and error process.

The babel project has a guide what changed in babel 7: https://babeljs.io/docs/en/v7-migration

For webpack there might be two migration steps, resources that might be helpful:

The upgrade should increment version numbers for webpack, babel and related libraries in https://github.com/BuildTeamDev/steem-editor/blob/master/package.json

There is a folder with webpack build scripts that need to be revised to ensure that the new build process has not degraded in performance or resulting package quality: https://github.com/BuildTeamDev/steem-editor/tree/master/webpack

The current babel config is very small https://github.com/BuildTeamDev/steem-editor/blob/master/.babelrc but preset logic changed so the new config will be more complicated. Maybe you can improve upon it with new features :)

Be sure to test that the distributed file https://github.com/BuildTeamDev/steem-editor/blob/master/dist/steem-editor.js is not degrading in size. Bonus points if you can compress it even more.

You can run npm run build to compile the dist/steem-editor.js and see errors, or you can run npm run dev to start a development server that auto rebuilds a test application. Both these processes should continue to work after the upgrade. You can compare the size of dist/steem-editor.js as a benchmark.

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