Yet another implementation for compatibility with serverless-offline

[rvaidya]

Replaces #55, #49, #47

This runs webpack.watch rather than webpack.compile for developer sanity reasons.

[rvaidya]

You may want to edit the implementation for semantics, I'm using the name "wpwatch" since "watch" is taken by the "webpack watch" function.

[rvaidya]

One note for serverless-offline, right now the entry point is hardcoded to ./handler.js

Webpack's output file must be generated in the project base directory for now, until specifying an input directory is added in serverless-offline

serverless-offline picks up all js files in the base dir as potential routes that can be referenced in serverless.yml

Referenced serverless-offline issue dherault/serverless-offline#153

[miltador]

@rvaidya, nice!
I think you can remove the offline part now and the old watch, serve, invoke commands according to discussing in #56 so that we'll leave the service emulation to the serverless-offline plugin.

dherault/serverless-offline#153 is merged, so now it can be started with --location .webpack.

[mhodgson]

👍 LGTM

[thenikso]

hello everyone! sorry for my absence! in the coming days I'll work on addressing all the opened PRs and issues starting with this one.

Is this preferred to #55 and the like? also is there some unit test that we should add for the new function?

[mhodgson]

@thenikso yes I've been using this for a while and it works well.

[ghost]

I feel that webpack serve should be removed and ppl should rely on serverless-offline for local testing, just focus only the webpack part