In a previous project, I used angular-cli to create my project. Now I have to use webpack directly, as part of the .NET project. And I'm struggling to achieve a simple job:
- Use the global style.css application.
- Copy my resources folder to dist
The output directory of my build is wwwroot / dist (our project requirement).
Angular-cli had a nice "simplified" configuration:
"outDir": "../wwwroot/dist", "assets": [ "assets" ], "styles": [ "styles.css" ],
And with that, I ended up with the correct dist folder, my assets that moved to the corresponding output directory, and my application-level styles.css were available anywhere in my application.
Now I can’t control the webpack setup to get this working in the new project structure and configuration. I think my team started a project using VS2015 templates that create a common structure: https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/tree/dev/templates/Angular2Spa
My project structure:
My two webpack configuration files
webpack.config.js
var isDevBuild = process.argv.indexOf('--env.prod') < 0; var path = require('path'); var webpack = require('webpack'); var nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals'); var merge = require('webpack-merge'); var allFilenamesExceptJavaScript = /\.(?!js(\?|$))([^.]+(\?|$))/; // Configuration in common to both client-side and server-side bundles var sharedConfig = { resolve: { extensions: [ '', '.js', '.ts' ] }, output: { filename: '[name].js', publicPath: '/dist/' // Webpack dev middleware, if enabled, handles requests for this URL prefix }, module: { loaders: [ { test: /\.ts$/, include: /ClientApp/, loader: 'ts', query: { silent: true } }, { test: /\.html$/, loader: 'raw' }, { test: /\.css$/, loader: 'to-string!css' }, { test: /\.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg)$/, loader: 'url', query: { limit: 25000 } } ] } }; // Configuration for client-side bundle suitable for running in browsers var clientBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, { entry: { 'main-client': './ClientApp/boot-client.ts' }, output: { path: path.join(__dirname, './wwwroot/dist') }, devtool: isDevBuild ? 'inline-source-map' : null, plugins: [ new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({ context: __dirname, manifest: require('./wwwroot/dist/vendor-manifest.json') }) ].concat(isDevBuild ? [] : [ // Plugins that apply in production builds only new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(), new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin() ]) }); // Configuration for server-side (prerendering) bundle suitable for running in Node var serverBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, { entry: { 'main-server': './ClientApp/boot-server.ts' }, output: { libraryTarget: 'commonjs', path: path.join(__dirname, './ClientApp/dist') }, target: 'node', devtool: 'inline-source-map', externals: [nodeExternals({ whitelist: [allFilenamesExceptJavaScript] })] // Don't bundle .js files from node_modules }); module.exports = [clientBundleConfig, serverBundleConfig];
You also have a vendor configuration to create vendors separately and update them less frequently. I do not want my assets and global style.css to be on the provider side.
webpack.config.vendor.js
var isDevBuild = process.argv.indexOf('--env.prod') < 0; var path = require('path'); var webpack = require('webpack'); var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin'); var extractCSS = new ExtractTextPlugin('vendor.css'); module.exports = { resolve: { extensions: [ '', '.js' ] }, module: { loaders: [ { test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?|$)/, loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000' }, { test: /\.css(\?|$)/, loader: extractCSS.extract(['css']) } ] }, entry: { vendor: [ '@angular/common', '@angular/compiler', '@angular/core', '@angular/http', '@angular/platform-browser', '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic', '@angular/router', '@angular/platform-server', 'angular2-universal', 'angular2-universal-polyfills', 'bootstrap', 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css', 'bootstrap-filestyle', 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css', 'es6-shim', 'es6-promise', 'jquery', 'zone.js', ] }, output: { path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist'), filename: '[name].js', library: '[name]_[hash]', }, plugins: [ extractCSS, new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: 'jquery', jQuery: 'jquery' }), // Maps these identifiers to the jQuery package (because Bootstrap expects it to be a global variable) new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(), new webpack.DllPlugin({ path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist', '[name]-manifest.json'), name: '[name]_[hash]' }) ].concat(isDevBuild ? [] : [ new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({ compress: { warnings: false } }) ]) };
I would like to use css in the definition in the styles.css application, and my resources should be moved to wwwroot / dist. I want to access them in my application by downloading / dist / assets / xxx