prozacgod / webpack-node-boilerplate

A webpack ES6/ES7 server side boilerplate

I wasn't entirely happy with some of the boilerplates that exist for Node+ES6/ES7, this is a server-side builder for node js server utilities. has jsx support wired in as well. (Although you'll need to add react or do more to make it fully functional, the compiler just compiles it into react.createcomponent code)

This also has an opinionated CONFIG global, so many of my server side projects require a config of some sort, node.js configs naturally are just JS files that get required in. BUT webpack doesn't allow ignoring a single file. It also wouldn't fit within the es6 style, and can get in the way of isomorphic js (browser and server)

I had a few options at my disposal but the one that felt the most correct, was creating a global CONFIG variable as part of this environment. I place that into each compiled file's header block - even though it's conditionally executed.

This means in the browser you can do <script> CONFIG={foo:1} </script>

And code will work as expected... on both client and sever side. The server will dyanmically load the config, the client expects the CONFIG to be defined before being loaded.

On the client side, if you don't automatically create a CONFIG variable, the client will attempt to execute a spurious "require" statement, with obvious results.

Development

Start the watch tool with

npm run watch

Then run the built code with

npm run execute -- [args]

Deployment

Nothing has been done here yet

Build

If you just wish to build it

npm run build