Webpack-settings

Create applications using webpack with minimum configuration.

Why Use This?

This module has been created to remove some complexity and "re-configuration" when you want to develop a new application using webpack features. At the same time, it allow you to expand or override the default configurations as you need.

Installation

• Install module

npm install -D webpack-settings

• Create webpack.config.js in your project

import { setup } from 'webpack-settings'

module.exports = setup();

What’s Inside?

• utilities
• webpack configuration
  • Setup
  • Utils
  • Plugins
• webpack-dev-server configuration
• html-webpack-plugin
• extract-text-plugin
• Babel using the latest ES6 features

This will export as npm module the following:

• Setup
• Utils
• Plugins

Setup

The provided setup allow to define the default properties present on the library, namely, paths and plugins. To know what each property can receive, check their topic.

Example:

Simple usage
webpack.config.js

import { setup } from 'webpack-settings'

module.exports = setup();

Advanced usage
webpack.config.js

import path from 'path'
import webpack from 'webpack'
import { setup } from 'webpack-settings'
const BASEDIR = process.cwd()

module.exports = setup({
  paths: {
    ENTRY_POINT: {
      application: path.resolve(BASEDIR, 'src/application')
      backoffice: path.resolve(BASEDIR, 'src/backoffice'),
    },
  },
  plugins: {
    production: [
      new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
        compress: { warnings: false },
      }),
    ]
  },
});

Utils

The module is composed by a set of utilities, namely for paths and flags.

Flags

If you need to extend or override some configuration, these flags can be usefull. The flags that are beeing exported are:

• IS_DEV
• IS_PROD
• IS_WATCH
• IS_TEST

Paths

For the paths, the following paths variables are beeing exported:

• PUBLIC_DIR => /
• DEV_DIR => [EXECUTION_PATH]/src
• DIST_DIR => [EXECUTION_PATH]/dist
• ENTRYPOINT => Use for entry property in webpack.config.js. With this approach, it can allow to have a single or multiple entrypoints

{
  app: path.resolve(BASEDIR, 'src/app')
}

Note: These can be changed when initializing configuration file

Plugins

These are exporting three groups of plugins, development, for development and for production By default, the main configuration are using these plugins by default. This can be usefull if you want to extend any of them and inject them into the main configuration.

Common

• ExtractTextPlugin
• HtmlWebpackPlugin

Development

Production

• native UglifyJsPlugin

Todo List

• Add tests
• Allow to pass loaders through setup
• Allow to pass webpack-dev-server object configuration