Updating WebPack to version 3

[TAnas0]

Hi there,
I really like the concept behind your boilerplate of separating the frontend from the backend.
I am trying to update the whole boilerplate starting from WebPack.
The version included in your boilerplate is WebPack 1 if I am not mistaken.
I tried upgrading it to version 3. Apparently I only need to upgrade it to the version 2 since upgrading to version 3 is smooth and done through the command line via updating WebPack only.
I followed mainly the official guide and some other separate ressources of course to try to modify the "webpack.config.js" file.
I ended up with the following "webpack.config.js" file:

var sGrid = require('s-grid');
var rupture = require('rupture');
var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  devtool: 'eval',
  entry: [
    'webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:3000',
    'webpack/hot/only-dev-server',
    './app/App.js'
  ],
  output: {
    pathinfo: true,
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public'),
    filename: 'bundle.js',
    publicPath: 'http://localhost:3000/'
  },
  plugins: [
    new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
     options: {
       //postcss: [autoprefixer],
       context: __dirname,
       minimize: true
       //stylus: [sGrid, rupture]
     }
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      title: 'React with Webpack and Redux - Meteor as a backend only!',
      template: './index_template.ejs',
      inject: 'body'
    }),
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
      sourceMap: true, //in WebPack 2 it defaults to false so need to be explicitly set.
      compress: {
        warnings: true
      }
    })
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
        use: ['babel-loader'] //'use' and 'loaders' are interchangeable
      },
      {
        test: /\.css$/, //scss??
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'style-loader'
          },
          {
            loader: 'css-loader',
            options: {
              sourceMap: true,
              importLoaders: 2,
              localIdentName: '[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:5]',
              //plugins: autoprefixer,//WTF??
            }
          },
          {
            loader: 'postcss-loader',
            options: {
              plugins: function(){
                return [autoprefixer]
              }
            }
          }
        ]
        //loader: 'style!css?sourceMap&importLoaders=2&localIdentName=[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:5]!postcss'
      },
      {
        test: /\.styl$/,
        exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'style-loader'
          },
          {
            loader: 'css-loader',
            options:{
              sourceMap: true,
              modules: true,
              importLoaders: 2,
              localIdentName: '[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:5]'
              //plugins: sGrid, rupture
            }
          },
          {
            loader: 'postcss-loader',
            options: {
              plugins: function(){
                return [autoprefixer]
              }
            }
          },
          {
            loader: 'stylus-loader',
            options: {
              plugins: function(){
                return [sGrid, rupture]
              }
            }
          }
        ]
        //  loader: 'style!css?sourceMap&modules&importLoaders=2&localIdentName=[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:5]!postcss!stylus-loader'
      },
      {
        test: /\.(png|jpg)$/,
        exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'url-loader',
            options:{
              name: 'images/[name].[ext]',
              limit: '8192' //Maybe INT????
            }
          }
        ]
        //loader: 'url-loader?name=images/[name].[ext]&limit=8192'
      }
    ]
  },
  resolve: {
    //root: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'app'),
    modules: [
      path.join(__dirname, "app"), // 2 or 3 arguments??
      "node_modules"
    ],
    extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.json', '.css', '.styl', '.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.gif'],
    enforceModuleExtension: false
  },
/*  stylus: function () {
    return [sGrid, rupture]
  },*/
/*  postcss: function () {
    return [autoprefixer];
  }*/
};

Still when I run npm start fron the client side I get the error in the picture attached, which is not really verbose. I can't pin the exact problem.

This is the debug file from npm.

2017-08-17T23_03_54_168Z-debug.txt

I would highly appreciate your help on this, and I apologize i this is not the right place for this question.

[juliancwirko]

Hi, sorry I don't maintain this package anymore :/ I'll provide some information in the readme file.
Anyway, you can compare the config file with this one: https://github.com/juliancwirko/react-boilerplate/blob/master/webpack.config.js (I'll update this to Webpack 3 soon).

I think for Webpack 3 you would need to provide separate configuration file for PostCSS (https://github.com/postcss/postcss#webpack) or is it in Webpack 2? I am not sure. In Webpack 2 I've used options for PostCSS right in the webpack config file. Maybe both will work.

[juliancwirko]

...you can also integrate create-react-app ;) Which is complete and well documented. My starters were created before it existed.

[TAnas0]

I'll go right into it, test it and be back.
Quick responses by the way, thank you

[juliancwirko]

Oh, and you may also be interested in this topic: https://forums.meteor.com/t/tram-create-react-app-webpack2-postcss-typescript-meteor-w-diagram/38564