boilerplate-webpack-babel

🍴 Starter with Webpack & Babel.js

Features

• ✅ Webpack
• ✅ Babel (Core)
• ✅ Support syntax ES2015+
• ✅ Distribution directory dist/
• ✅ Directory with files as-is without changes static/ (they will copied to dist/static/)
• ✅ Development with webpack-dev-server
• ✅ Hosting with http-server
• ✅ Bundle file size analytics with webpack-bundle-analyzer
• ✅ Two build strategies: dev (with source maps) & prod (compress file)

Getting started

You can start in two ways:

Use Git

mkdir PROJECT_NAME
cd $_     # Note: "$_" is the last argument of the previous command
git init  # Note: branch "master" is created
git remote add boilerplate [email protected]:piecioshka/boilerplate-webpack-babel.git
git pull boilerplate master
git remote remove boilerplate

or ...

Use Zip

1. Download package file: https://github.com/piecioshka/boilerplate-webpack-babel/archive/master.zip
2. Extract it to your project directory.

How to build an application?

npm run build               # Development mode
npm run build:development   # Development mode
npm run build:production    # Production mode

TIP: Serve dist/ directory by npm start

How to develop an application?

npm run dev     # Use webpack-dev-server

or

npm run watch   # Use webpack -w

TIP: Serve dist/ directory by npm start

Remove generated directory

npm run clear       # Remove only dist/
npm run clear:all   # Remove dist/ & node_modules/

🧩 Webpack Addons

When would you like a modified Webpack configuration, please add a new "addon" to webpack/addons/ directory.

• webpack.bundleAnalyzer.js - Analysis of bundle file weight
• webpack.copyStatic.js - Copy directory static/ to dist/static/ (Enabled by default)

How to run addons?

# Single addon
npm run dev -- --env addons=singleAddon
npm run build -- --env addons=singleAddon
npm run watch -- --env addons=singleAddon
npm run build:development -- --env addons=singleAddon
npm run build:production -- --env addons=singleAddon

## Multiple addons
npm run dev -- --env addons=firstAddon,secondAddon

License

The MIT License @ 2017-2024