Angular Webpack Seed

An unfinished and unsupported angular webpack seed.

I probably won't be maintaining this - but feel free to use and contribute.

Features

• Use *.jade and *.less
• Includes Twitter Bootstrap 3
• Includes UI Router
• Hot Module Reload - instant reload of:
  • LESS & CSS
  • Templates (**/*.state.jade)
  • Controllers (**/*Ctrl.js)

Install

   # install webpack and bower globally
   npm install webpack -g
   npm install webpack-dev-server -g
   npm install bower -g

   git clone git@github.com:markmarijnissen/angular-webpack-seed.git
   # rm -rf .git    # remove git repository (optional)
   npm install
   bower install

Develop

   webpack-dev-server --hot --ip=192.168.1.10

The --ip defaults to localhost and is only required if you want to access the website from another device or computer (on the same network).

Build

   webpack
   webpack --minify

Magic

Check out angular-hot-module-replacement.js. It works as follows:

1. Create a require.context to require all templates (*.static.jade) and controllers (*Ctrl)
2. Accept a changed (invalidated) context by reloading state.

angular-hot-module-replacement now accepts all changes in templates and controllers, but only if they bubble up to the require.context!

However:

• You cannot require templates and controllers directly, because if they are invalidated, they are not accepted. (Unless you write custom module.hot.accept handlers)
• ui-router resolves templateUrls and controllers only the first time.

To solve this, I have created factory functions that require a fresh template and controller each time state changes.

   template: function(name,data){
      return function(){
         return TemplateRequire('./'+name+'.state.jade')(data);
      };
   },
   controller: function(name){
      return function(){
         return ControllerRequire('./'+name);
      };
   }

As you can see in app.js, the factory functions are available on the $hmr service (from the hot-module-replacement angular module).

Now you can populate your ui-router config with hot-reloaded templates and controllers:

   .state('a',{
      url: "/a",
      template: $hmr.template('a/a'),
      controllerProvider: $hmr.controller('a/ACtrl')
   })

Awesome!

Todo

• Add/Fix AngularPlugin - automatically require AngularJS modules
• Add test scripts
• Use NPM package.json scripts to run test/clean tasks
• Hot Update Directives.

Known Issues

There is a bug in webpack to accept multiple numeric dependencies (angular-hot-module-replacement.js). Will be fixed soon.