does not write webpack-assets.json to location specified as rootDir

[bdefore]

Following the example here: https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example/blob/master/bin/server.js#L4 I'm attempting to change rootDir to another path, in order to better externalize my source from the boilerplate code. For example, I'd like to change that to var rootDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../external'); I also then update the context to point to the same path, so that the tools can find the webpack-assets.json.

Unfortunately, what I see is that it is writing the file into the project root, rather than what I'm specifying.

If I add logs to here: https://github.com/halt-hammerzeit/webpack-isomorphic-tools/blob/master/source/index.js#L149

        console.log('setting up project path', this.options.project_path);
        console.log('setting up webpack assets path', this.webpack_assets_path);

I get the following output:

[1] setting up project path /Users/d4/code/react-redux-universal-hot-example-fork/external
[1] setting up webpack assets path /Users/d4/code/react-redux-universal-hot-example-fork/external/webpack-assets.json

But then webpack-assets.json is written to the project root and it never finds them, so I see endless logs like the following:

[1] [webpack-isomorphic-tools] (waiting for the first Webpack build to finish)

I'm running version 2.2.18

[catamphetamine]

webpack-assets.json is written by Webpack plugin therefore rootDir doesn't take effect because rootDir variable is used only in your server code.
Does this answer your question?

[bdefore]

how would i configure where that gets written to?

[catamphetamine]

you can use the configuration:
https://github.com/halt-hammerzeit/webpack-isomorphic-tools#configuration
webpack_assets_file_path

[bdefore]

thanks. i got it to work by specifying webpack_assets_file_path: 'external/webpack-assets.json', in that configuration.

a note though: at that link it says in your comments above that it would default to writing webpack-assets.json the webpack configuration context, which i am setting to my external directory, so i would have expected this change to be unnecessary.

[catamphetamine]

a note though: at that link it says in your comments above that it would default to writing webpack-assets.json the webpack configuration context, which i am setting to my external directory, so i would have expected this change to be unnecessary.

Well, it did create webpack-assets.json in your webpack configuration context folder, or didn't it?

[bdefore]

without the additional configuration change to webpack_assets_file_path it did not, it would write webpack-assets.json to the project root even though Webpack context was configured to external

[catamphetamine]

can you post your webpack.config.js?

[bdefore]

here's my fork and branch i'm working from: https://github.com/bdefore/react-redux-universal-hot-example/tree/parameterized-routes-and-source-path

you should be able to test either case if you add/remove the line here https://github.com/bdefore/react-redux-universal-hot-example/blob/parameterized-routes-and-source-path/external/webpack-overrides-config.js#L8

[catamphetamine]

ok