hops-webpack
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hops-webpack
hops-webpack
is the largest and most complex of hops
's core packages. It contains half of its total lines of code and provides both a preset and a core mixin. It provides a comprehensive, but rather minimal Webpack
setup as a basis for your own configurations.
Based on hops-express
, it also features development and production servers. The former even comes with hot module replacement (HMR).
During application startup, hops-webpack
runs a check to determine if Webpack is installed multiple times. If you see warnings telling you that this is the case, you will want to make sure you get rid of these duplicates, as they will almost certainly break things in interesting ways.
Installation
$ yarn add hops-webpack # OR npm install hops-webpack
CLI
build
This is the most basic of hops-webpack
's commands - and it simply performs a Webpack build according to its arguments and configuration. It will not only start a usual browser build, but also one for the server-side version of your application.
To run the built application afterwards, use hops-express
's serve
-command;
$ hops build -p && hops serve -p
Arguments
-p
/ --production
If hops build
is called with the production
argument, hops
itself sets the shell environment variable $NODE_ENV
to "production"
. This variable is generally used in lots of places, for example to fine-tune hops-webpack
's Webpack configurations.
$ hops build -p # OR hops build --production
This is equivalent to manually setting $NODE_ENV
before calling the actual command. Use whatever works best in your specific setting.
$ NODE_ENV=production hops build
--fast-build
experimental
Using the experimental --fast-build
option will only transpile a predefined set of node modules. If you use a node module that ships ES language features that aren't supported by your browser matrix it might break your website. Therefore only use this feature if you have a comprehensive test setup which covers all your supported browsers.
You can extend this predefined set though by adding glob patterns to the experimental.babelIncludePatterns
config.
develop
Using this command, you can start a full-featured development server that is as similar to a production system as possible. It does, however, ensure the browser and server versions of your application are being recompiled and redeployed whenever you change your code.
$ hops develop
start
This is probably the hops
command your will use most of the time - we certainly do. It is, essentially, just a shorthand for other hops
commands.
$ hops start # OR hops start -p
Arguments
-p
/ --production
If called in production
mode, hops start
will first perform a build and start an express server afterwards. Otherwise it will start a development server. hops start -p
is thus equivalent to hops build -p && hops serve -p
, while hops start
is equivalent to hops develop
. All arguments are used as documented with those other commands.
Of course, once again, you can also manually set $NODE_ENV
.
$ NODE_ENV=production hops start
--parallel-build
/ --no-parallel-build
A Hops build will fork its process in order to let the Webpack builds run in parallel child processes. While it usually does not reduce the build time it actually helps to significantly reduce the peak memory consumption of the build.
This feature is enabled by default and can be disabled via the --no-parallel-build
(or --parallel-build=false
) argument.
--fast-dev
experimental
Using the experimental --fast-dev
option will disable automatic polyfilling and transpiling of all node_modules
files through babel to enable faster development times. This will lead to a different bundle being created than in production mode and will not work in all browsers (modern browsers only). Use with caution and report any bugs you may encounter.
DO NOT USE THIS MODE FOR QA OR PRODUCTION
--experimental-esbuild
experimental
Using the experimental --experimental-esbuild
option will replace the babel-loader
of Hops's internal Webpack config with the esbuild-loader
. While esbuild is significantly faster than Babel, it's still early-stage and might lead to unexpected results.
To use it, install esbuild-loader
and esbuild-jest
as dev-dependencies in your project.
In order to use esbuild in Jest you need to set the USE_EXPERIMENTAL_ESBUILD
environment variable to true
.
USE_EXPERIMENTAL_ESBUILD=true npm test
Please be aware that things are working differently in esbuild than Babel. The currently known drawbacks and limitations are:
- esbuild is not on a stable release cycle yet. Please also read about the production readyness from the main author.
- esbuild does not typecheck your TypeScript files, it can only convert them to JavaScript.
- to use the JSX syntax in TypeScript you have to use the
.tsx
extention. We recommend to also use the.jsx
extention for JavaScript based JSX files to be consistent, even though it's not required. - it does not support the new JSX Transform, so it's up to you to import
React
into every component - Hops'
importComponent
is currently a Babel plugin and for esbuild we only implemented the transpilation of the simple syntax for now (arrow function with import expression). That means it only supports default imports, but no named imports.
// example of supported syntax:
const Home = importComponent(() => import('./home'));
// example of unsupported syntax:
const Home = importComponent(
() => import('./home'),
(namespace) => namespace.Home
);
And there might be more issues. So please report any bugs you may encounter to us.
API
hops-webpack
provides a couple of configurable exports for your convenience: mixin hooks marked with 'callable' below can be called like in the following example example:
const { build } = require('hops-webpack');
build();
If you need to provide config overrides or options to these kinds of calls, you can do so like in the next example.
const { configure } = require('hops-webpack');
const { build } = configure(configOverrides, options);
build();
The above example is functionally equivalent to directly working with hops-bootstrap
's bootstrap
export.
configureBuild(webpackConfig, loaderConfigs, target)
(sequence)
If you implement this mixin hook in your hops-bootstrap
core
mixin, you will be able to modify the different Webpack configs hops
uses in any way you like.
In addition to the actual webpackConfig
, which, by the way, your implementation is expected to return, you will receive an object containing all loaderConfigs
and a target
argument. This last argument can be build
, develop
, or node
.
const { Mixin } = require('hops-mixin');
module.exports = class MyMixin extends Mixin {
configureBuild(webpackConfig, loaderConfigs, target) {
webpackConfig.resolve.extensions.push('.ftw');
}
};
You can use whatever mechanism you like to modify the complicated structures Webpack configs unfortunately have to be. For convenience, loaderConfigs
contains the following properties for you to inspect and modify specific loader configs directly:
| Property | Explanation |
| --- | --- |
| jsLoaderConfig
| babel-loader
config |
| urlLoaderConfig
| url-loader
config |
| fileLoaderConfig
| file-loader
config |
| allLoaderConfigs
| Array
of loader configs passed to oneOf
module loader rule |
Caveat: please be advised that, while we strive to provide very stable webpackConfig
and loaderConfigs
arguments, these may change in subtle ways between minor
versions of hops-webpack
. For example, specific loader options may stop working. Additionally, other mixins may alter these arguments in relevant ways, so code accordingly.
inspectBuild(stats, config)
(sequence)
If you want to programmatically determine whether a build went well, your mixin can implement this method. It will be called with a Webpack stats
object and the actual configuration used for the specific build you are inspecting.
build()
(callable)
If you want to intialize a build of your application, you can do so using this utility mixin method. It returns a Promise
resolving to a stats
object.
This method is also exported so that you can use it in your own, non-mixin code. Import it like so: import { build } from 'hops-webpack';
. In this mode, it also accepts another argument, options
, which you can pass any CLI argument to.
clean()
(callable)
Using this utility mixin method, you can delete your buildDir
and all of its contents. It returns a Promise
.
This method is also exported so that you can use it in your own, non-mixin code. Import it like so: import { clean } from 'hops-webpack';
. In this mode, it also accepts another argument, options
, which you can pass any CLI argument to.
getWebpackBuildConfig(target)
(callable)
Returns the webpack config for the production build after configureBuild
has been applied. target
argument can be browser
or none
and will determine which mixins should be bundled.
This method is also exported so that you can use it in your own, non-mixin code. Import it like so: import { getWebpackBuildConfig } from 'hops-webpack';
. In this mode, it also accepts another argument, options
, which you can pass any CLI argument to.
getWebpackDevelopConfig(target)
(callable)
Returns the webpack config for the development build after configureBuild
has been applied. target
argument can be browser
or none
and will determine which mixins should be bundled.
This method is also exported so that you can use it in your own, non-mixin code. Import it like so: import { getWebpackDevelopConfig } from 'hops-webpack';
. In this mode, it also accepts another argument, options
, which you can pass any CLI argument to.
getWebpackNodeConfig(target)
(callable)
Returns the webpack config for the server-side Node.js build after configureBuild
has been applied. target
argument can be server
or none
and will determine which mixins should be bundled.
This method is also exported so that you can use it in your own, non-mixin code. Import it like so: import { getWebpackNodeConfig } from 'hops-webpack';
. In this mode, it also accepts another argument, options
, which you can pass any CLI argument to.
Settings
| Property | Type | Default |
| ------------ | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| browsers
| [string]
| ['defaults']
|
| node
| string
| 'current'
|
| basePath
| string
| ''
|
| assetPath
| string
| '<basePath>'
|
| buildDir
| string
| '<distDir>'
|
| serverDir
| string
| '<rootDir>/node_modules/.cache/hops-webpack'
|
| serverFile
| string
| 'server.js'
|
| statsFile
| string
| 'stats.json'
|
browsers
This is a browserslist
configuration that is being used and Babel's preset-env
to determine what language features need to be transpiled and/or polyfilled for your target platforms.
{
"browsers": ["last 1 Chrome versions"]
}
node
This is the target Node.js version Babel's preset-env
transpiles features for. Usually you will want to keep its default, as it is best practice to develop and build your application on the same Node version as you run in production.
{
"node": "14.5"
}
basePath
This is the URL base path, i.e. subfolder, your application will be served from.
{
"basePath": "<name>"
}
assetPath
This is the URL base path, i.e. subfolder, your application's assets will be served from. If set, this folder will be created in your buildDir
at build time.
{
"assetPath": "<basePath>/assets"
}
buildDir
Path of your browser build output. By default, this folder is usually removed before building. Make sure the contents of this folder can be served by your webserver.
{
"buildDir": "<rootDir>/build"
}
serverDir
Path of your server build output. It will only be used in production
-mode. By default, this folder is located inside your node_modules
folder and it is usually removed before building.
{
"serverDir": "<buildDir>"
}
serverFile
Path of your server output file, relative to serverDir
. It will only be generated in production
-mode and is being used internally.
{
"serverFile": "server.js"
}
statsFile
Path of your stats file, relative to serverDir
. It will only be generated in production
-mode and is being used internally.
{
"assetFile": "stats.json"
}
Debugging
Available tags for the debug
-module are:
hops:webpack:config:build
hops:webpack:config:develop
hops:webpack:config:node
hops:webpack:dependencies