fs option

[frux]

I build my app for client and server. But I can't require rebuilded server scripts because of memory-fs. Can you give me availability to use custom file-system library (e.g. fs)?

[SpaceK33z]

webpack-dev-middleware is specifically made to handle and serve in-memory files. I don't understand your use case, could you explain that a bit more?

[otarim]

@SpaceK33z sometimes i need to inject some config into process file during dev stage. With memory-fs i can't access files pass through middleware

[SpaceK33z]

@otarim, is the config purely for the html files? You could use something like html-webpack-plugin and pass config parameters to the plugin. In the html file you could then display those with underscore templates.

E.g. in your webpack config, add new HtmlWebPackPlugin({ template: 'src/my-index.html', myConfig: 'blabla' }). And then in src/my-index.html, include something like this: <%=htmlWebpackPlugin.options.myConfig%>.

[SpaceK33z]

Also see #88.

[SimeonC]

Hey, just came across this issue myself, so I found that the fs is exposed on the middleware here:

webpack-dev-middleware/middleware.js

Line 83 in 6b49341

webpackDevMiddleware.fileSystem = context.fs;

And it's set here:

webpack-dev-middleware/lib/Shared.js

Line 92 in 6b49341

context.fs = fs;

The problem I've found is that we can access the fs for the first render, but as the middleware is essentially setting an object reference - it doesn't update when we change it so I can't get a reference to the new FS. My use case is building a custom dev server for node-tailor which requires me to send the main js bundle through in a custom header. I have to restart the process to get the new file being sent through. This would be fixed by using a function to get the fs rather than relying on the object reference.

EDIT Nvm - realised I was using v1.8 - this is fixed in v1.9. (Possibly wasn't broken in 1.8 but who knows!!!)

[tconroy]

hi @SimeonC - I'm trying to do an fs.readFileSync to read in a file from dev-middleware memory (I detailed my use case more over in #190). Can you elaborate how you got it working for your use case? I'm just trying to read-in a css file ( built by webpack ) into a node server environment so I can inject it in responses.

[shellscape]

closing given the discussion and apparent resolution and issue age. please request a reopen if needs be.