SIMPLE WEBPACK 4 BOILERPLATE

HTML and JS bundling via Webpack 4. HTML and JS live-reloading via webpack-dev-server.

This is a simple, functional boilerplate project centered around Webpack 4. It is configured to bundle javascript by webpack's default config (no specials js loaders used), and HTML bundling via html-loader and html-webpack-plugin.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Experience both HTML and JS live-reloading in development by running:

npm run start

Further information

How the project was built:

1. TERMINAL COMMANDS:

$	mkdir <project> && cd $_

$	npm init -y

$	npm i webpack webpack-cli webpack-dev-server html-loader html-webpack-plugin --save-dev

$	mkdir src

$	touch src/index.js

$	touch src/index.html

2. Added html5 boilerplate code inside index.html

3. Added to package.json the new Webpack 4 npm scripts:

"scripts": {
  "start": "webpack-dev-server --mode development --open",
  "build": "webpack --mode production"
}

4. Added webpack.config.js to the root of the folder.

5. Added this config code, which gets Webpack to bundle and live-reload the js (by default), and the html (which needs both html-loader and html-wepack-plugin):

const HtmlWebPackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.html$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: "html-loader",
            options: { minimize: true }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebPackPlugin({
      template: "./src/index.html",
      filename: "./index.html"
    })
  ]
};

8. The boilerplate is complete! To experience both html and js live-reloading in development, run:

npm run start

Thank you and good luck!

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