For webpack version 2.x, you just add –open open to the CLI as documented here: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserver-open Alternatively, add the following config to your webpack.config.js: devServer: { open: true }
This is not an issue with webpack or webpack-dev-server itself, but with the copy-webpack-plugin plugin. With the update to the 6.x major version came a breaking change: instead of just passing the array with the config patterns directly to the CopyWebpackPlugin constructor, your now have to wrap it in the patterns property of an object … Read more
Another way to work around it is to directly add the required CORS headers to the dev server: devServer: { … headers: { “Access-Control-Allow-Origin”: “*”, “Access-Control-Allow-Methods”: “GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS”, “Access-Control-Allow-Headers”: “X-Requested-With, content-type, Authorization” } } Doc links Webpack dev server Access-Control-Allow-Headers Access-Control-Allow-Methods Access-Control-Allow-Origin
Webpack-dev-server is great for client side development but it will not deploy Express api’s or middleware. So in development I recommend running two separate servers: One for the client and one for your server side api’s. Nodemon npm install –save-dev nodemon is a good backend development server that will give you hot-redeploy of your api’s, … Read more
There is a babel/register style hook to ignore style imports: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ignore-styles Install it: npm install –save-dev ignore-styles Run tests without styles: mocha –require ignore-styles
I would add that it was the opposite for me. I originally had my images and .obj/.mtl files in a public folder that existed at the root of my application. I moved them into an assets folder that was created in the app folder. Performing an npm install –save-dev copy-webpack-plugin and adding the new CopyWebpackPlugin([ … Read more
The correct one is to use this import: const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require(‘clean-webpack-plugin’); And then instead of passing an array with the distribution folder, change it to plugins: [ new CleanWebpackPlugin(), //… ]
Two things were causing my problems here: module.exports = { entry: ‘./src/index.js’, output: { // For some reason, the `__dirname` was not evaluating and `/public` was // trying to write files to a `public` folder at the root of my HD. path: __dirname + ‘/public’, // Public path refers to the location from the _browser’s_ … Read more
If you’re using webpack’s dev server you can pass in options to use /public as a base directory. devServer: { publicPath: “https://stackoverflow.com/”, contentBase: “./public”, hot: true }, See the webpack configuration docs, and specifically the webpack dev server docs for more options and general information.
webpack As you’ve described, Webpack is a module bundler, it bundles various module formats primarily so they can be run in a browser. It offers both a CLI and Node API. webpack-dev-middleware Webpack Dev Middleware is middleware which can be mounted in an express server to serve the latest compilation of your bundle during development. … Read more