I have a directory structure like this:
and inside node_modules:
>node_modules
>./bin
>webpack.config.js
>bootstrap
>bootstrap.css
>bootstrap.js
I need to generate separate CSS and JS bundles like this:
custom-styles.css, custom-js.js, style-libs.css, js-libs.js
where style-libs
and js-libs
should contain syles and js files of all libraries like bootstrap and jQuery. Here's what I have done so far:
webpack.config.js:
const path = require('path');
const basedir = path.join(__dirname, '../../client');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const stylesPath = path.join(__dirname, '../bootstrap/dist/css');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
module.exports = {
watch: true,
// Script to bundle using webpack
entry: path.join(basedir, 'src', 'Client.js'),
// Output directory and bundled file
output: {
path: path.join(basedir, 'dist'),
filename: 'app.js'
},
// Configure module loaders (for JS ES6, JSX, etc.)
module: {
// Babel loader for JS(X) files, presets configured in .babelrc
loaders: [
{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
loader: 'babel',
babelrc: false,
query: {
presets: ["es2015", "stage-0", "react"],
cacheDirectory: true // TODO: only on development
}
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style-loader", "css-loader")
},
]
},
// Set plugins (for index.html, optimizations, etc.)
plugins: [
// Generate index.html
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: path.join(basedir, 'src', 'index.html'),
filename: 'index.html'
}),
new ExtractTextPlugin(stylesPath + "/bootstrap.css", {
allChunks: true,
})
]
};
Client.js
import * as p from 'babel-polyfill';
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App from './components/App.jsx';
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('app'));
I am able to run the app and render all of the components correctly except loading the external JS and CSS file using webpack
.
I'm not much experienced with webpack and find it really difficult it wrap my hear around it. There're are a few simple questions:
1- Is this configuration correct? If yes, then how can I include my CSS and JS files in components using ES6. Something like import
keyword.
2- Should I even be using webpack for CSS files?
3- How to specify individual directories for input and their respective output files in webpack? Something like all-custom.js
should be output for custom1.js
and custom2.js
?
I know these are some very basic question and I tried Google but didn't find a single tutorial for Webpack that is simple and targets beginners.
After playing out with Webpack in multiple projects, I figured out how Webpack loads stuff. Since the question is still unanswered, I decided to do it myself for anybody with same need.
Directory structure
->assets
->css
->my-style-1.css //custom styling file 1
->my-style-2.css //custom styling file 2
->src
->app
->app.js
->variables.js
->libs.js //require all js libraries here
->styles-custom.js //require all custom css files here
->styles-libs.js //require all style libraries here
->node_modules
->index.html
->package.json
->webpack.config.js
Bundle 1 (main code of app)
app.js
: assuming this is main file and app starts from here
var msgs = require('./variables');
//similarly import other js files you need in this bundle
//your application code here...
document.getElementById('heading').innerText = msgs.foo;
document.getElementById('sub-heading').innerText = msgs.bar;
Bundle 2 (js modules)
libs.js
: this file will require all modules needed
require('bootstrap');
//similarly import other js libraries you need in this bundle
Bundle 3 (external css files)
styles-libs.js
: this file will require all external css files
require('bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css');
//similarly import other css libraries you need in this bundle
Bundle 4 (custom css files)
styles-custom.js
: this file will require all custom css files
require('../assets/css/my-style-1.css');
require('../assets/css/my-style-2.css');
//similarly import other css files you need in this bundle
webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const extractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
entry: {
'app': './src/app/app.js', //specifying bundle with custom js files
'libs': './src/libs.js', //specifying bundle with js libraries
'styles-custom': './src/styles-custom.js', //specifying bundle with custom css files
'styles-libs': './src/styles-libs.js', //specifying bundle with css libraries
},
module: {
loaders: [
//used for loading css files
{
test: /\.css$/,
loader: extractTextPlugin.extract({ fallbackLoader: 'style-loader', loader: 'css-loader?sourceMap' })
},
//used for loading fonts and images
{
test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|ico)$/,
loader: 'file-loader?name=assets/[name].[hash].[ext]'
}
]
},
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'), //directory for output files
filename: '[name].js' //using [name] will create a bundle with same file name as source
},
plugins: [
new extractTextPlugin('[name].css'), //is used for generating css file bundles
//use this for adding jquery
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
$: 'jquery',
jQuery: 'jQuery'
})
]
}
index.html
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/styles-libs.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/styles-custom.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h2 id="heading"></h2>
<h3>
<label id="sub-heading" class="label label-info"></label>
</h3>
<script src="dist/libs.js"></script>
<script src="dist/app.js"></script>
</body>