Webpack development server

Development server for webpack with hot module reloading, simplified console outpout and connect middleware support.

Installation

$ npm install unfold/dev-server

Usage

it can be run globally as $ dev-server or as a module require('dev-server')() and defaults to webpack.config.js in current directory and serves from http://localhost:3000.

Example

If your application depends on a server, you can pass it on to the dev-server as a middleware to serve requests for content and API calls.

app.js

var express = require('express')
var app = express()
var api = require('./api')

app.use(express.static('./build'))
app.use('/api', api);

app.use(function(req, res) {
  res.sendFile('./src/index.html')
})

if (!module.parent) {
  app.listen(process.env.PORT || 80)
}

module.exports = app

lib/development-server.js

var path = require('path')
var devServer = require('dev-server')

devServer({
  port: 5000,
  hostname: 'myproject.dev',
  config: path.resolve(__dirname, '../webpack.config.js'),
  middleware: path.resolve(__dirname, '../app.js')
})

Start it with $ node lib/development-server or add it to your your package.json

…
scripts: {
    "start": "node app.js",
    "serve": "node lib/development-server.js"
}
…

and run $ npm run serve

Options

Options can be accessed with $ dev-server -h

    -v --version               output the version number
    -p, --port <port>          serve from port
    -H, --hostname <hostname>  serve from hostname
    -c, --config <path>        your webpack config
    -m, --middleware <path>    optional connect middleware
    -e, --env [path]           import environment. defaults to .env
    -f, --history-fallback     fallback to / url is a directory
    --log-browser-connections  log all browsers who connect to server