I am new to webpack and attempting to learn it. I have been trying to copy my vendor js files and custom jquery scripts from src to dist using webpack. I have tried but I couldn't find any way.
So this is how my folder structure is:
Project_root_folder
- node_modules/
- package.json
- src/
- app/
- app.js
- img/
- img1.png
- css/
- main.scss
js/
- custom_slick.js
- main.js
- plugins/
- jquery.min.js
- slick.min.js
index.pug
- about.pug
contact.pug
dist/
- webpack.config.js
My webpack.config file
var path = require("path"),
src = path.resolve(__dirname, "src"),
dist = path.resolve(__dirname, "dist"),
webpack = require("webpack"),
HtmlWebpackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin"),
HtmlWebpackPugPlugin = require('html-webpack-pug-plugin'),
ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin"),
extractPlugin = new ExtractTextPlugin({
filename: "css/main.css"
});
module.exports = {
entry: src + "/app/app.js",
output: {
path: dist,
filename: "bundle.js",
publicPath: "/"
},
module: {
rules: [
{ //Convert .pug to .html
test: /\.pug$/,
loaders: ['file-loader?name=[name].html', 'pug-html-loader?pretty&exports=false']
},
{
test: /\.scss$/, //convert .scss to .css
use: extractPlugin.extract({
use: ["css-loader", "sass-loader?minimize=true"]
})
},
{
test: /..\js\$\.js$/, // move all .js files in js folder
use: [
{
loader: "file-loader",
options: {
name: "[name].js",
outputPath: "js/"
}
}
]
},
{
test: /..\js\plugins\.js$/,
use: [
{
loader: "file-loader",
options: {
name: "js/plugins/[name].js",
outputPath: "js/plugins/"
}
}
]
}
]
},
plugins: [
extractPlugin
]
}
App.js file
import '../css/main.scss';
require.context('../js/', true, /\.js$/); //require all js files in js folder
require.context('../js/plugins/', true, /\.js$/); // all js files in plugins folder which is inside js folder
function requirAll (r) { r.keys().forEach(r); }
requireAll(require.context('../', true, /\.pug$/));
Also when I run this config file, I noticed that only the script files with a suffix "-js" get copied and not any other js files included in js/ folder for example filename "main.js" doesn't get copied but if it were named "main-js.js" then it gets copied into my dist folder, and I am unable to copyfiles from plugins/ folder. I am unable to understand this.
I have tried every possible solution I could come across over Stack Overflow, GitHub and similar websites but none were helpful. Also I found webpack to be extremely confusing. Before moving to webpack, I had been using Gulp which I found a lot more helpful. I came across webpack and want to learn it but I am finding it extremely difficult.