J-Siu / ng2-webpack-dll

This project aim to be a basic starting point to create Angular2 application using a vendor dll (vendor.js) containing the base Angular2 modules.

Angular Vendor Dll

The latest and continuous development of angular-cli, has basically mark this project obsolete.

angular-cli is able to do everything this project is doing, doing it better and with a lot of other features related to Angular2 development.

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• Angular 2 Vendor Dll
  • Usage
  • Files
    • webpack.config.vendor.js
    • webpack.config.app.js
• ChangeLog
• Thank You
• License

Introduction

Webpack's CommonsChunkPlugin is a popular way to pack vendor, polyfills modules for nodejs, npm or Angular2 project. However webpack will go through the whole vendor, polyfills tree each time you recompile your project.

Webpack's Dll and DllReference plugins come in as a rescue. You can read the following article by Rob Knight

Optimizing Webpack build times and improving caching with DLL bundles

Angular 2 Vendor Dll

This project aim to be a basic starting point to create Angular2 application using a vendor dll (vendor.js) containing the base Angular2 modules.

Usage

Git clone

git clone https://github.com/J-Siu/ng2-webpack-dll.git
cd ng2-webpack-dll

Install global packages:

npm -g install webpack
npm -g install webpack-dev-middleware
npm -g install webpack-dev-server

Install local packages:

npm install

Create Dll

npm run vendor

Start Webpack dev server

npm start

Build

npm run build

Files

webpack.config.vendor.js

npm run vendor will use webpack.config.vendor.js to create vendor.js, and put it into src/public/js/.

To include more modules in vendor.js, modify webpack.config.vendor.js, src/main.ts and package.json.

webpack.config.app.js

npm run build will use webpack.config.app.js to transpile your Angular2 application.

ChangeLog

• 2.0.0-RC4
  • Use Angular2 RC4
• 2.0.0-RC4-fix
  • Fix webpack config files
• 2.0.0-RC5
  • Use Angular2 RC5
• 2.0.0-RC5-V2
  • webpack.config.*.js: Set mangle:false for webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin. NG2 RC5 issue 10618
  • package.json: Use postinstall for typings install
  • Update app to demonstrate Angular2 module import
• 2.0.0 - Use
  • Use Angular2 2.0.0
  • Use default settings for uglify in webpack.config.vendor.js
  • Add simple-api-client-ng2 to test rxjs operators

Thank You

This project is heavily inspired by AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.