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Using Htmlwebpackplugin with Webpack-Dev-Middleware

Short Summary
Is combining htmlwebpackplugin functionality with webpack-dev-middleware impossible because of dev-middleware's reliance on files in memory? Screenshots of script outputs at bottom of this post. Because I've chosen to implement cache-hashed filenames in my production config, I can't seem to use dev-middleware anymore.
My Setup
I have 2 main configurations for my webpack instance. One for development (with hot reload) and one for production. I utilize webpack-merge to create a common.config that I'll eventually extract commonalities between the two configurations (for now it's fairly blank). In terms of app setup I have an API run separately in Python.
The problem
On my production config I'm using splitchunks for vendor/bundle splitting as well as some minimizations. It works perfectly fine. However, when I'm trying to run my development environment, although it's creating the the appropriate bundles for development [i.e. without the hashing] according to the terminal, the index.html file is unable to be found (likely because webpack-dev-middleware looks for things in memory). As a result, I can't see my development environment and I can't see any of the hot reload changes? Previously I would generate all my bundle files with npm run build:production and then use NPM start. I imagine dev-middleware would overlay it's in-memory version of the bundle.js changes over my file on disk, but now that I'm using hashed filenames on prod I can't really do that anymore?
Package.json scripts
"scripts": {
"clean": "rimraf dist/*.{js,css,eot,woff,woff2,svg,ttf,jpg,map,json}",
"build":
"webpack -p --progress --verbose --colors --display-error-details --config webpack/common.config.js",
"build:production": "npm run clean && npm run build",
"flow": "flow",
"lint": "eslint src",
"start": "nodemon bin/server.js",
The relevant parts of server.js
(function initWebpack() {
const webpack = require('webpack');
const webpackConfig = require('./webpack/common.config');
const compiler = webpack(webpackConfig);
app.use(
require('webpack-dev-middleware')(compiler, {
noInfo: true,
publicPath: webpackConfig.output.publicPath,
}),
);
app.use(
require('webpack-hot-middleware')(compiler, {
log: console.log,
path: '/__webpack_hmr',
heartbeat: 10 * 1000,
}),
);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/')));
})();
app.get(/.*/, (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '/dist/index.html'));
});
common.config.js
const path = require('path');
const merge = require('webpack-merge');
// const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const development = require('./dev.config');
const production = require('./prod.config');
const TARGET = process.env.npm_lifecycle_event;
const PATHS = {
app: path.join(__dirname, '../src'),
build: path.join(__dirname, '../dist'),
nodeModulesDir: path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules'),
indexFile: path.join(__dirname, './src/index'),
};
process.env.BABEL_ENV = TARGET;
const common = {
entry: [PATHS.app],
output: {
path: PATHS.build,
},
};
if (TARGET === 'start' || !TARGET) {
module.exports = merge(development, common);
}
if (TARGET === 'build' || !TARGET) {
module.exports = merge(production, common);
}
dev.config.js
const webpack = require('webpack');
const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs');
require('babel-polyfill').default;
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const PATHS = {
app: path.join(__dirname, '../src'),
};
module.exports = {
devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
entry: ['webpack-hot-middleware/client', './src/index'],
mode: 'development',
output: {
publicPath: '/dist/',
},
resolve: {
extensions: ['.jsx', '.js', '.json', '.scss', '.less'],
modules: ['node_modules', PATHS.app],
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
},
{
test: /\.css$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: [
{
loader: 'style-loader',
},
{
loader: 'css-loader',
},
'postcss-loader',
],
},
{
test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
use: [
'style-loader',
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
importLoaders: 2,
},
},
'postcss-loader',
'sass-loader',
],
},
{
test: /\.less$/,
use: [
'style-loader',
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
importLoaders: 2,
},
},
'postcss-loader',
{
loader: 'less-loader',
options: {
//addlater
},
},
],
},
{
test: /bootstrap-sass\/assets\/javascripts\//,
use: [
{
loader: 'imports-loader',
options: {
jQuery: 'jquery',
},
},
],
},
{
test: require.resolve('jquery'),
use: [
{
loader: 'expose-loader',
options: '$',
},
{
loader: 'expose-loader',
options: 'jQuery',
},
],
},
{
test: /\.(woff|woff2)(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'url-loader',
options: {
limit: 50000,
mimetype: 'application/font-woff',
},
},
],
},
],
},
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': {
NODE_ENV: '"development"',
},
__DEVELOPMENT__: true,
}),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
jQuery: 'jquery',
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: 'index.html',
template: 'index_template.html',
}),
],
};
Here's an example of what my index.html file looks like after using npm run build:production. As you can see, the in-memory version of index.html probably can't work with this anymore with the hashed filenames?
<link href="/dist/vendor.a85f.css" rel="stylesheet"><link href="/dist/main.4d1e.css" rel="stylesheet"></head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/dist/manifest.81a7.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/dist/vendor.99aa.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/dist/main.6eb4.js"></script></body>
Other notes:
On latest version of webpack 4.
My production version works fine
Any help much appreciated.
UPDATE:
I've swapped out rimraf dist for clean webpack plugin and moved it to my common.config. That way on each build it's doing the clean before generating index.html. However, I've noticed that when I use npm start, while the output in terminal is showing that files are emitted....I can't find them anywhere? After investigated webpack-dev-middleware, it seems they store things in memory. This is probably the core problem. How can I tie htmlwebpack plugin together with something like dev-middleware if it's in memory or perhaps I need to maintain a separate index.html file? I'm guessing the reason why this flow worked previously was because I had static names for bundle.js for both prod and dev so the in-memory version had no problem. now that the names are hashed from the prod version...it doesn't know what to do?

Webpack output bundle larger than expected

The only thing I have in my entry JS file is:
import $ from 'jquery';
The jQuery JS file has the size of 29.5kb from jsdelivr.
My entry, that only includes jQuery, and nothing else, has the size of 86kb.
webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
const UglifyJsPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin')
module.exports = {
entry: './src/js/scripts.js',
output: {
publicPath: "./dist/",
path: path.join(__dirname, "dist/js/"),
filename: "bundle.js"
},
watch: true,
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: "babel-loader",
query: {
presets: [
['env', { loose:true, modules:false }],
'stage-2'
],
plugins: [
['transform-react-jsx', { pragma:'h' }]
]
}
},
{
test: /\.pug$/,
use: [
"file-loader?name=[name].html&outputPath=../dist",
"extract-loader",
"html-loader",
"pug-html-loader"
]
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: ExtractTextPlugin.extract({
use: ['css-loader?url=false', 'sass-loader']
})
},
]
},
resolve: {
alias: {
"TweenMax": path.resolve('node_modules', 'gsap/src/uncompressed/TweenMax.js'),
"TimelineMax": path.resolve('node_modules', 'gsap/src/uncompressed/TimelineMax.js'),
"animation.gsap": path.resolve('node_modules', 'scrollmagic/scrollmagic/uncompressed/plugins/animation.gsap.js'),
}
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin('../css/main.css'),
new UglifyJsPlugin({
test: /\.js($|\?)/i
})
],
stats: {
warnings: false
}
};
I should also mention, that going into the output bundle.js it still has the jQuery comments.
jQuery JavaScript Library v3.3.1
https://jquery.com/ ...
Even though I'm calling webpack with the -p argument and have the UglifyJS plugin, but the rest of the file is minified and mangled. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Try to copy and paste minified jquery from your link. It's has size of 86.9 kb.
This link also show that jquery v3 minified file size is also around 80kb.
So you already have correct setup. Maybe your 29.5kb file size is minified+gzipped file.

The 29.5kb file size is definitely the minified+gzipped version as per the link Niyoko posted.
I would also recommend checking out Fuse-Box It brought down our project size from over 1mb to under 200kb (Vendor and App bundles combined). Very easy to get going as well and it is TypeScript first :) It takes the best features from a number of the more popular bundlers and brings them together and builds on those features.

Bundle JS files with webpack scripts?

I'm super new to webpack and I do not seem to find a way to bundle JS files as I did with Gulp in a very easy way. I've been searching a bit but didn't find any straight answer to it.
Right now I'm creating two minified files by using in my package.json file, but I would love to have a single one instead:
"scripts": {
"stand-alone": "concurrently 'webpack --config=webpack.config.js src/whatever.vue demos/build.min.js --output-library=whatever1' 'webpack --config=webpack.config.js src/whatever2.js demos/mixin.min.js --output-library=whatever2'",
},
Then my webpack.config.js looks like this:
const webpack = require('webpack');
module.exports = {
resolve: {
alias: {
'vue$': 'vue/dist/vue.js'
}
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.vue$/,
loader: 'vue-loader',
options: {
loaders: {
scss: 'vue-style-loader!css-loader!sass-loader',
js: 'babel-loader'
}
}
},
{
test: /\.js$/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
}
}
]
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
compress: {
warnings: false,
drop_console: false,
}
})
],
};

I believe you are looking for entry points.
In your webpack.config.js module exports object:
Define the entry property:
entry: {
app: ['./path/to/file.js', './path/to/file2.js'],
},
Define the output property:
output: {
path: '/path/to/assets', // ex. '../../wwwroot/dist'
filename: '[name].js', // Substitutes [name] with the entry name, results in app.js
publicPath: '/'
},
Change your script to:
"scripts": {
"stand-alone": "webpack --config=webpack.config.js",
},
If you are using Vue + Webpack, I recommend that you take a look to vue-cli and generate a project using the webpack template. It is more advanced, but you can see the documentation and get an idea of what you are missing.
Run the following:
npm install -g vue-cli // install vue cli globally
vue init webpack my-project // create a sample project
If you want to generate multiple output files, you can have more than one entry point like so:
entry: {
app: ['./path/to/file.js', './path/to/file2.js'],
mixins: './path/to/mixins.js',
vendors: ['./path/to/vendor.js', './path/to/vendor2.js']
},
This will write to disk ./path/to/assets/app.js, ./path/to/assets/mixins.js, /path/to/assets/vendors.js.

Webpack bundles tests (enzyme / jest) in the production env

I have issue with Webpack building production bundle with test files + test libs included.
In this case it is Enzyme and Jest which we use.
Webpack version 3.10.0
Webpack.build.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const UglifyJsPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = function() {
return {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../build'),
filename: 'bundle.js',
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: [
/node_modules/,
/__snapshots__/,
/test-util/,
],
loader: 'babel-loader'
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'isomorphic-style-loader'
},
{
loader: 'css-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader'
}
]
},
]
},
plugins: [
new UglifyJsPlugin(),
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': {
'NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV),
}
}),
]
}
};
Here is the file structure
I have tried to workaround the issue by placing Enzyme as external resource in webpack.
externals: {
'enzyme': 'enzyme',
'enzyme-adapter-react-16': 'enzyme-adapter-react-16',
}
That does exclude it from build but (it is workaround) it still builds the snapshot files
I have tried to make "test" regex of babel-loader more specific and exclude test files but it failed.
This is new project and I spent whole day trying to make it bundle only what is necesary. Drained all of my know-how, my google know-how and know-how of the poeple I know or I work with. Hope that SO will be smarter :)

Using webpack to simply transpile and concat files?

So i am trying to figure out how to use webpack to replace our current brunch build process. Basically we have an angular 1 app which doesnt utilise requires or imports at all and I want to have webpack just concat+transpile the files (there are both coffee and sass files and ill need to be able to watch and create source maps using the usual settings). This angular app is sitting inside another application which is using webpack extensively.
What is the simplest way to accomplish this? Is this even possible without the app using any form of javascript modules?
Here is my current config:
var webpack = require( "webpack" );
var ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
var path = require("path");
var glob = require("glob");
const exportConfig = {
entry: {
app: glob.sync('./front-end/applications/core/app/**/*.coffee'),
vendor: ['angular']
},
output: {
filename: "app.bundle.js",
path: path.join( __dirname, "../www_root/build" ),
},
debug: true,
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.coffee$/,
loader: "coffee-loader"
},
{
test: /\.sass$/,
loaders: ["style", "css", "sass"]
},
{
test: /\.(jsx|es6)/,
exclude: /(node_modules|www_root\/bower)/,
loader: "babel",
},
]
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin("vendor", "vendor.bundle.js"),
new ExtractTextPlugin("[name].css", {
allChunks: true
}),
]
}
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(function webpackMissingModule() { throw new Error("Cannot find module \"./front-end/applications/core/app/components/app/module.coffee\""); }());
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