Frontwerk

Build your SPA with Webpack

Frontwerk uses Webpack under the hood to bundle your Javascript application.

Default configuration

You can run the following command and have Webpack bundle your javascript.

frontwerk build --pack

The above command assumes you have structured your project to have a src folder where your Javascript lives and a dist folder where the compiled versions will be written to. Furthermore, your entry point is a src/index.js or src/index.jsx (if using React) file.

By default, Webpack will use the configuration based on the --mode flag passed via the CLI (either developmet or production). You can browse the source code to see the configuration and the plugins used.

Overriding the defaults

There are two possible ways to extend or create your Webpack config.

  1. Create a file named webpack.config.js in your project root.
  2. Pass a --config argument with your build task.

If you don’t know how to create a webpack.config.js file, please have a read on the Webpack website.

Because Frontwerk’s default webpack.config.js exports a configuration object, you can extend it in your own config file.

const { webpack: webpackConfig } = require('frontwerk/config');
module.exports = Object.assign(webpackConfig, {
  // your overrides here
});

Entry point

Frontwerk assumes your entry point is src/index.js(x). You can override this by passing the --entry flag.

frontwerk build --pack --entry source/main.js

Destination directory

Frontwerk assumes your destination directory is dist. You can override this by passing the --output-path flag.

frontwerk build --pack --output-path [folder]

CLI options

There are a couple of other sensible defaults that you can override:

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