html-webpak-plugin templates

[jantimon]

Hi,

I just came across this repo and saw that you are preferring setting all scripts/links using blueimp over the inject option.
Is there a specific reason for it because I believe that the inject options simplifies the app development a lot?

https://github.com/survivejs/webpack_react/blob/master/project_source/05_webpack_and_react/kanban_app/app/index.tpl

Could easily be

https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin/blob/master/default_inject_index.html

[bebraw]

Cool, thanks for pointing that out! I'll get this fixed.

[bebraw]

@jantimon Thanks! I simplified the section a lot (realized no template is needed in this case). Speaking of which is there a nice way to generate dev server index.html through html-webpack-plugin dynamically? It's not nice having to drag that in the project.

[jantimon]

Hm actually I meant you might want to use inject:true for custom templates but this also a simpler approach ;)
I don't understand however what you mean by dynamically generated dev files - the plugin adds it to the webpack assets. So it should be there on the dev server too. Is it missing?

[bebraw]

Hm actually I meant you might want to use inject:true for custom templates ;)

Ah. Anyway, much simpler now. 👍

I don't understand however what you mean by dynamically generated dev files - the plugin adds it to the webpack assets. So it should be there on the dev server too. Is it missing?

If you look at my boilerplate, you can see there's dev-server/index.html hanging around. That's something I want to eliminate. I have a feeling export-files-webpack-plugin might be needed here. Just playing around with this.

[bebraw]

If you check out that plugin, you can see the core of the issue:

You might use some file-generating plugins on production (e.g. HTML Webpack Plugin), but it would be useless on development, as dev-server is not actually saving any files on the disk.

[jantimon]

Should not be needed should work right away without your dev-server/index.html just open the index.html in the same folder where your javascript is

[bebraw]

@jantimon Can you hit me through gitter? Opened a chat there. We can probably resolve the issue faster that way. Likely just missing something simple here.