subblue / webpack-boilerplate

📦 ‎ A sensible webpack 5 boilerplate.

📦 webpack Boilerplate

Sensible webpack 5 boilerplate using Babel, PostCSS and Sass with a hot dev server and an optimized production build.

Installation

git clone [e-mail]:taniarascia/webpack-boilerplate
cd webpack-boilerplate
npm i

Usage

Development server

npm start

You can view the development server at localhost:8080.

Production build

npm run build

Note: Install http-server globally to deploy a simple server.

npm i -g http-server

You can view the deploy by creating a server in dist.

cd dist && http-server

Features

• webpack
• Babel
• Sass
• PostCSS

Dependencies

webpack

• webpack - Module and asset bundler.
• webpack-cli - Command line interface for webpack
• webpack-dev-server - Development server for webpack
• webpack-merge - Simplify development/production configuration
• cross-env - Cross platform configuration

Babel

• @babel/core - Transpile ES6+ to backwards compatible JavaScript
• @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties - Use properties directly on a class (an example Babel config)
• @babel/preset-env - Smart defaults for Babel

Loaders

• babel-loader - Transpile files with Babel and webpack
• sass-loader - Load SCSS and compile to CSS
  • node-sass - Node Sass
• postcss-loader - Process CSS with PostCSS
  • postcss-preset-env - Sensible defaults for PostCSS
• css-loader - Resolve CSS imports
• style-loader - Inject CSS into the DOM

Plugins

• clean-webpack-plugin - Remove/clean build folders
• copy-webpack-plugin - Copy files to build directory
• html-webpack-plugin - Generate HTML files from template
• mini-css-extract-plugin - Extract CSS into separate files
• optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin - Optimize and minimize CSS assets
• terser-webpack-plugin - Optimize and minimize JavaScript

Author

• Tania Rascia

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.