

On the advice of A moderately Stoned Duck from my question on Assembling individual css and scripts into common files decided to try glob to crawl directories and include templates as points log in (yes, it probably looks strange). I also need the collector to go through all the directories recursively and leave the converted file in the source location. In the documentation of the webpack, quite a bit is written about working with preprocessors templates and their operation requires explicit import. The folder of each application contains a different number of templates: ├── appĪccordingly, their explicit import can be inconvenient. The project contains templates, styles, scripts for each application, which are located in a separate directory. Other templating engines should behave roughly the same as the behaviour is provided by HTMLWebpackPlugin itself, I can’t confirm this though as I don’t really use other engines.How can I convert pug files into html templates without explicitly importing them to the entry point? That’s pretty much all there is to generating your HTML from pug templates with the HTMLWebpackPlugin. You can find out a bit more about critical css and why you may want it in this Google Pagespeed article. This would be useful in a situation where we are inlining our critical CSS into our HTML and we want to load the rest of the styles after the initial render. We could also load our CSS asynchronously, using this loadCSS function from filament group: This means we can have more control over how our bundles are included in the HTML, for instance we can ensure our JS is loaded async or deferred. If we reload our page after this change, we can see it is back to red text with our exciting ‘Success’ alert. HTMLWebpackPlugin makes our bundled files available as local variables in our pug template. To include our bundles in the correct location in our HTML, we can use pug variables. We just have boring black text with no exciting alerts 😞. If we reload our HTML file now, we can see that the CSS and JS are no longer being loaded.

We will structure our project like this (note: we are not going to put much in the css or js file - just enough to confirm they are being included): The minimum setup for this is pretty simple. This is a template for the webpack plugin html-webpack-plugin.It has a few extra features more than the default template which will. You can pass an HTML file and the plugin will inject your files, you can use Lodash templates or you can use a templating engine with its corresponding loader. If you need a more customised HTML file though, you have a couple of options. If you only need an index.html to deliver your JS then you won’t need to move away from the default / simplest settings. The default HTML file generated by the plugin is suitable for many projects. If you don’t know what Pug is, it’s a whitespace based template engine, implemented in JS for Node.js / Browsers. This would generate a generic index.html that includes your javascript bundle.
