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This README is for babel-loader v8 + Babel v7 Check the 7.x branch for docs with Babel v6
Babel Loader
This package allows transpiling JavaScript files using Babel and webpack.
Note: Issues with the output should be reported on the Babel Issues tracker.
webpack 4.x | babel-loader 8.x | babel 7.x
npm install -D babel-loader @babel/core @babel/preset-env webpack
webpack documentation: Loaders
Within your webpack configuration object, you'll need to add the babel-loader to the list of modules, like so:
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env']
}
}
}
]
}
See the babel
options.
You can pass options to the loader by using the options
property:
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env'],
plugins: ['@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread']
}
}
}
]
}
This loader also supports the following loader-specific option:
cacheDirectory
: Default false
. When set, the given directory will be used to cache the results of the loader. Future webpack builds will attempt to read from the cache to avoid needing to run the potentially expensive Babel recompilation process on each run. If the value is set to true
in options ({cacheDirectory: true}
), the loader will use the default cache directory in node_modules/.cache/babel-loader
or fallback to the default OS temporary file directory if no node_modules
folder could be found in any root directory.
cacheIdentifier
: Default is a string composed by the @babel/core
's version, the babel-loader
's version, the contents of .babelrc
file if it exists, and the value of the environment variable BABEL_ENV
with a fallback to the NODE_ENV
environment variable. This can be set to a custom value to force cache busting if the identifier changes.
cacheCompression
: Default true
. When set, each Babel transform output will be compressed with Gzip. If you want to opt-out of cache compression, set it to false
-- your project may benefit from this if it transpiles thousands of files.
customize
: Default null
. The path of a module that exports a custom
callback like the one that you'd pass to .custom()
. Since you already have to make a new file to use this, it is recommended that you instead use .custom
to create a wrapper loader. Only use this if you must continue using babel-loader
directly, but still want to customize.
Make sure you are transforming as few files as possible. Because you are probably matching /\.m?js$/
, you might be transforming the node_modules
folder or other unwanted source.
To exclude node_modules
, see the exclude
option in the loaders
config as documented above.
You can also speed up babel-loader by as much as 2x by using the cacheDirectory
option. This will cache transformations to the filesystem.
Babel uses very small helpers for common functions such as _extend
. By default, this will be added to every file that requires it.
You can instead require the Babel runtime as a separate module to avoid the duplication.
The following configuration disables automatic per-file runtime injection in Babel, requiring @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
instead and making all helper references use it.
See the docs for more information.
NOTE: You must run npm install -D @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
to include this in your project and @babel/runtime
itself as a dependency with npm install @babel/runtime
.
rules: [
// the 'transform-runtime' plugin tells Babel to
// require the runtime instead of inlining it.
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env'],
plugins: ['@babel/plugin-transform-runtime']
}
}
}
]
Since @babel/plugin-transform-runtime includes a polyfill that includes a custom regenerator-runtime and core-js, the following usual shimming method using webpack.ProvidePlugin
will not work:
// ...
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
'Promise': 'bluebird'
}),
// ...
The following approach will not work either:
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise').default = require('bluebird');
var promise = new Promise;
which outputs to (using runtime
):
'use strict';
var _Promise = require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise')['default'];
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise')['default'] = require('bluebird');
var promise = new _Promise();
The previous Promise
library is referenced and used before it is overridden.
One approach is to have a "bootstrap" step in your application that would first override the default globals before your application:
// bootstrap.js
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise').default = require('bluebird');
// ...
require('./app');
babel
has been moved to babel-core
.If you receive this message, it means that you have the npm package babel
installed and are using the short notation of the loader in the webpack config (which is not valid anymore as of webpack 2.x):
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
loader: 'babel',
}
webpack then tries to load the babel
package instead of the babel-loader
.
To fix this, you should uninstall the npm package babel
, as it is deprecated in Babel v6. (Instead, install @babel/cli
or @babel/core
.) In the case one of your dependencies is installing babel
and you cannot uninstall it yourself, use the complete name of the loader in the webpack config:
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
}
core-js
and webpack/buildin
will cause errors if they are transpiled by Babel.
You will need to exclude them form babel-loader
.
{
"loader": "babel-loader",
"options": {
"exclude": [
// \\ for Windows, \/ for Mac OS and Linux
/node_modules[\\\/]core-js/,
/node_modules[\\\/]webpack[\\\/]buildin/,
],
"presets": [
"@babel/preset-env"
]
}
}
Webpack supports bundling multiple targets. For cases where you may want different Babel configurations for each target (like web
and node
), this loader provides a target
property via Babel's caller API.
For example, to change the environment targets passed to @babel/preset-env
based on the webpack target:
// babel.config.js
module.exports = api => {
return {
plugins: [
"@babel/plugin-proposal-nullish-coalescing-operator",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-optional-chaining"
],
presets: [
[
"@babel/preset-env",
{
useBuiltIns: "entry",
// caller.target will be the same as the target option from webpack
targets: api.caller(caller => caller && caller.target === "node")
? { node: "current" }
: { chrome: "58", ie: "11" }
}
]
]
}
}
babel-loader
exposes a loader-builder utility that allows users to add custom handling of Babel's configuration for each file that it processes.
.custom
accepts a callback that will be called with the loader's instance of babel
so that tooling can ensure that it using exactly the same @babel/core
instance as the loader itself.
In cases where you want to customize without actually having a file to call .custom
, you may also pass the customize
option with a string pointing at a file that exports your custom
callback function.
// Export from "./my-custom-loader.js" or whatever you want.
module.exports = require("babel-loader").custom(babel => {
function myPlugin() {
return {
visitor: {},
};
}
return {
// Passed the loader options.
customOptions({ opt1, opt2, ...loader }) {
return {
// Pull out any custom options that the loader might have.
custom: { opt1, opt2 },
// Pass the options back with the two custom options removed.
loader,
};
},
// Passed Babel's 'PartialConfig' object.
config(cfg) {
if (cfg.hasFilesystemConfig()) {
// Use the normal config
return cfg.options;
}
return {
...cfg.options,
plugins: [
...(cfg.options.plugins || []),
// Include a custom plugin in the options.
myPlugin,
],
};
},
result(result) {
return {
...result,
code: result.code + "\n// Generated by some custom loader",
};
},
};
});
// And in your Webpack config
module.exports = {
// ..
module: {
rules: [{
// ...
loader: path.join(__dirname, 'my-custom-loader.js'),
// ...
}]
}
};
customOptions(options: Object): { custom: Object, loader: Object }
Given the loader's options, split custom options out of babel-loader
's options.
config(cfg: PartialConfig): Object
Given Babel's PartialConfig
object, return the options
object that should be passed to babel.transform
.
result(result: Result): Result
Given Babel's result object, allow loaders to make additional tweaks to it.
Author: Babel
Source Code: https://github.com/babel/babel-loader
License: MIT License
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This README is for babel-loader v8 + Babel v7 Check the 7.x branch for docs with Babel v6
Babel Loader
This package allows transpiling JavaScript files using Babel and webpack.
Note: Issues with the output should be reported on the Babel Issues tracker.
webpack 4.x | babel-loader 8.x | babel 7.x
npm install -D babel-loader @babel/core @babel/preset-env webpack
webpack documentation: Loaders
Within your webpack configuration object, you'll need to add the babel-loader to the list of modules, like so:
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env']
}
}
}
]
}
See the babel
options.
You can pass options to the loader by using the options
property:
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env'],
plugins: ['@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread']
}
}
}
]
}
This loader also supports the following loader-specific option:
cacheDirectory
: Default false
. When set, the given directory will be used to cache the results of the loader. Future webpack builds will attempt to read from the cache to avoid needing to run the potentially expensive Babel recompilation process on each run. If the value is set to true
in options ({cacheDirectory: true}
), the loader will use the default cache directory in node_modules/.cache/babel-loader
or fallback to the default OS temporary file directory if no node_modules
folder could be found in any root directory.
cacheIdentifier
: Default is a string composed by the @babel/core
's version, the babel-loader
's version, the contents of .babelrc
file if it exists, and the value of the environment variable BABEL_ENV
with a fallback to the NODE_ENV
environment variable. This can be set to a custom value to force cache busting if the identifier changes.
cacheCompression
: Default true
. When set, each Babel transform output will be compressed with Gzip. If you want to opt-out of cache compression, set it to false
-- your project may benefit from this if it transpiles thousands of files.
customize
: Default null
. The path of a module that exports a custom
callback like the one that you'd pass to .custom()
. Since you already have to make a new file to use this, it is recommended that you instead use .custom
to create a wrapper loader. Only use this if you must continue using babel-loader
directly, but still want to customize.
Make sure you are transforming as few files as possible. Because you are probably matching /\.m?js$/
, you might be transforming the node_modules
folder or other unwanted source.
To exclude node_modules
, see the exclude
option in the loaders
config as documented above.
You can also speed up babel-loader by as much as 2x by using the cacheDirectory
option. This will cache transformations to the filesystem.
Babel uses very small helpers for common functions such as _extend
. By default, this will be added to every file that requires it.
You can instead require the Babel runtime as a separate module to avoid the duplication.
The following configuration disables automatic per-file runtime injection in Babel, requiring @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
instead and making all helper references use it.
See the docs for more information.
NOTE: You must run npm install -D @babel/plugin-transform-runtime
to include this in your project and @babel/runtime
itself as a dependency with npm install @babel/runtime
.
rules: [
// the 'transform-runtime' plugin tells Babel to
// require the runtime instead of inlining it.
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['@babel/preset-env'],
plugins: ['@babel/plugin-transform-runtime']
}
}
}
]
Since @babel/plugin-transform-runtime includes a polyfill that includes a custom regenerator-runtime and core-js, the following usual shimming method using webpack.ProvidePlugin
will not work:
// ...
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
'Promise': 'bluebird'
}),
// ...
The following approach will not work either:
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise').default = require('bluebird');
var promise = new Promise;
which outputs to (using runtime
):
'use strict';
var _Promise = require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise')['default'];
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise')['default'] = require('bluebird');
var promise = new _Promise();
The previous Promise
library is referenced and used before it is overridden.
One approach is to have a "bootstrap" step in your application that would first override the default globals before your application:
// bootstrap.js
require('@babel/runtime/core-js/promise').default = require('bluebird');
// ...
require('./app');
babel
has been moved to babel-core
.If you receive this message, it means that you have the npm package babel
installed and are using the short notation of the loader in the webpack config (which is not valid anymore as of webpack 2.x):
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
loader: 'babel',
}
webpack then tries to load the babel
package instead of the babel-loader
.
To fix this, you should uninstall the npm package babel
, as it is deprecated in Babel v6. (Instead, install @babel/cli
or @babel/core
.) In the case one of your dependencies is installing babel
and you cannot uninstall it yourself, use the complete name of the loader in the webpack config:
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
}
core-js
and webpack/buildin
will cause errors if they are transpiled by Babel.
You will need to exclude them form babel-loader
.
{
"loader": "babel-loader",
"options": {
"exclude": [
// \\ for Windows, \/ for Mac OS and Linux
/node_modules[\\\/]core-js/,
/node_modules[\\\/]webpack[\\\/]buildin/,
],
"presets": [
"@babel/preset-env"
]
}
}
Webpack supports bundling multiple targets. For cases where you may want different Babel configurations for each target (like web
and node
), this loader provides a target
property via Babel's caller API.
For example, to change the environment targets passed to @babel/preset-env
based on the webpack target:
// babel.config.js
module.exports = api => {
return {
plugins: [
"@babel/plugin-proposal-nullish-coalescing-operator",
"@babel/plugin-proposal-optional-chaining"
],
presets: [
[
"@babel/preset-env",
{
useBuiltIns: "entry",
// caller.target will be the same as the target option from webpack
targets: api.caller(caller => caller && caller.target === "node")
? { node: "current" }
: { chrome: "58", ie: "11" }
}
]
]
}
}
babel-loader
exposes a loader-builder utility that allows users to add custom handling of Babel's configuration for each file that it processes.
.custom
accepts a callback that will be called with the loader's instance of babel
so that tooling can ensure that it using exactly the same @babel/core
instance as the loader itself.
In cases where you want to customize without actually having a file to call .custom
, you may also pass the customize
option with a string pointing at a file that exports your custom
callback function.
// Export from "./my-custom-loader.js" or whatever you want.
module.exports = require("babel-loader").custom(babel => {
function myPlugin() {
return {
visitor: {},
};
}
return {
// Passed the loader options.
customOptions({ opt1, opt2, ...loader }) {
return {
// Pull out any custom options that the loader might have.
custom: { opt1, opt2 },
// Pass the options back with the two custom options removed.
loader,
};
},
// Passed Babel's 'PartialConfig' object.
config(cfg) {
if (cfg.hasFilesystemConfig()) {
// Use the normal config
return cfg.options;
}
return {
...cfg.options,
plugins: [
...(cfg.options.plugins || []),
// Include a custom plugin in the options.
myPlugin,
],
};
},
result(result) {
return {
...result,
code: result.code + "\n// Generated by some custom loader",
};
},
};
});
// And in your Webpack config
module.exports = {
// ..
module: {
rules: [{
// ...
loader: path.join(__dirname, 'my-custom-loader.js'),
// ...
}]
}
};
customOptions(options: Object): { custom: Object, loader: Object }
Given the loader's options, split custom options out of babel-loader
's options.
config(cfg: PartialConfig): Object
Given Babel's PartialConfig
object, return the options
object that should be passed to babel.transform
.
result(result: Result): Result
Given Babel's result object, allow loaders to make additional tweaks to it.
Author: Babel
Source Code: https://github.com/babel/babel-loader
License: MIT License
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webpack
Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
Install with npm:
npm install --save-dev webpack
Install with yarn:
yarn add webpack --dev
Webpack is a bundler for modules. The main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
TL;DR
Check out webpack's quick Get Started guide and the other guides.
Webpack supports all browsers that are ES5-compliant (IE8 and below are not supported). Webpack also needs Promise
for import()
and require.ensure()
. If you want to support older browsers, you will need to load a polyfill before using these expressions.
Webpack has a rich plugin interface. Most of the features within webpack itself use this plugin interface. This makes webpack very flexible.
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
[mini-css-extract-plugin][mini-css] | ![mini-css-npm] | ![mini-css-size] | Extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS. |
[compression-webpack-plugin][compression] | ![compression-npm] | ![compression-size] | Prepares compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding |
[html-webpack-plugin][html-plugin] | ![html-plugin-npm] | ![html-plugin-size] | Simplifies creation of HTML files (index.html ) to serve your bundles |
Webpack enables the use of loaders to preprocess files. This allows you to bundle any static resource way beyond JavaScript. You can easily write your own loaders using Node.js.
Loaders are activated by using loadername!
prefixes in require()
statements, or are automatically applied via regex from your webpack configuration.
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
[val-loader][val] | ![val-npm] | ![val-size] | Executes code as module and considers exports as JS code |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
![cson-npm] | ![cson-size] | Loads and transpiles a CSON file |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
![babel-npm] | ![babel-size] | Loads ES2015+ code and transpiles to ES5 using Babel | |
![type-npm] | ![type-size] | Loads TypeScript like JavaScript | |
![coffee-npm] | ![coffee-size] | Loads CoffeeScript like JavaScript |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
![html-npm] | ![html-size] | Exports HTML as string, requires references to static resources | |
![pug-npm] | ![pug-size] | Loads Pug templates and returns a function | |
![md-npm] | ![md-size] | Compiles Markdown to HTML | |
![posthtml-npm] | ![posthtml-size] | Loads and transforms a HTML file using PostHTML | |
![hbs-npm] | ![hbs-size] | Compiles Handlebars to HTML |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
<style> | ![style-npm] | ![style-size] | Add exports of a module as style to DOM |
![css-npm] | ![css-size] | Loads CSS file with resolved imports and returns CSS code | |
![less-npm] | ![less-size] | Loads and compiles a LESS file | |
![sass-npm] | ![sass-size] | Loads and compiles a Sass/SCSS file | |
![stylus-npm] | ![stylus-size] | Loads and compiles a Stylus file | |
![postcss-npm] | ![postcss-size] | Loads and transforms a CSS/SSS file using PostCSS |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
![vue-npm] | ![vue-size] | Loads and compiles Vue Components | |
![polymer-npm] | ![polymer-size] | Process HTML & CSS with preprocessor of choice and require() Web Components like first-class modules | |
![angular-npm] | ![angular-size] | Loads and compiles Angular 2 Components | |
![riot-npm] | ![riot-size] | Riot official webpack loader |
Webpack uses async I/O and has multiple caching levels. This makes webpack fast and incredibly fast on incremental compilations.
Webpack supports ES2015+, CommonJS and AMD modules out of the box. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries out of the box.
Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded asynchronously at runtime. This reduces the initial loading time.
Webpack can do many optimizations to reduce the output size of your JavaScript by deduplicating frequently used modules, minifying, and giving you full control of what is loaded initially and what is loaded at runtime through code splitting. It can also make your code chunks cache friendly by using hashes.
We want contributing to webpack to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for anyone, and everyone. We have a vibrant ecosystem that spans beyond this single repo. We welcome you to check out any of the repositories in our organization or webpack-contrib organization which houses all of our loaders and plugins.
Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on webpack, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions including:
To get started have a look at our documentation on contributing.
If you are worried or don't know where to start, you can always reach out to Sean Larkin (@TheLarkInn) on Twitter or simply submit an issue and a maintainer can help give you guidance!
We have also started a series on our Medium Publication called The Contributor's Guide to webpack. We welcome you to read it and post any questions or responses if you still need help.
Looking to speak about webpack? We'd love to review your talk abstract/CFP! You can email it to webpack [at] opencollective [dot] com and we can give pointers or tips!!!
If you create a loader or plugin, we would <3 for you to open source it, and put it on npm. We follow the x-loader
, x-webpack-plugin
naming convention.
We consider webpack to be a low-level tool used not only individually but also layered beneath other awesome tools. Because of its flexibility, webpack isn't always the easiest entry-level solution, however we do believe it is the most powerful. That said, we're always looking for ways to improve and simplify the tool without compromising functionality. If you have any ideas on ways to accomplish this, we're all ears!
If you're just getting started, take a look at our new docs and concepts page. This has a high level overview that is great for beginners!!
Looking for webpack 1 docs? Please check out the old wiki, but note that this deprecated version is no longer supported.
If you want to discuss something or just need help, here is our Gitter room where there are always individuals looking to help out!
If you are still having difficulty, we would love for you to post a question to StackOverflow with the webpack tag. It is much easier to answer questions that include your webpack.config.js and relevant files! So if you can provide them, we'd be extremely grateful (and more likely to help you find the answer!)
If you are twitter savvy you can tweet #webpack with your question and someone should be able to reach out and help also.
If you have discovered a đ or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on Github.
Most of the core team members, webpack contributors and contributors in the ecosystem do this open source work in their free time. If you use webpack for a serious task, and you'd like us to invest more time on it, please donate. This project increases your income/productivity too. It makes development and applications faster and it reduces the required bandwidth.
This is how we use the donations:
Author: Webpack
Source Code: https://github.com/webpack/webpack
License: MIT License
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webpack
Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
Install with npm:
npm install --save-dev webpack
Install with yarn:
yarn add webpack --dev
Webpack is a bundler for modules. The main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
TL;DR
Check out webpack's quick Get Started guide and the other guides.
Webpack supports all browsers that are ES5-compliant (IE8 and below are not supported). Webpack also needs Promise
for import()
and require.ensure()
. If you want to support older browsers, you will need to load a polyfill before using these expressions.
Webpack has a rich plugin interface. Most of the features within webpack itself use this plugin interface. This makes webpack very flexible.
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
mini-css-extract-plugin | Extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS. | ||
compression-webpack-plugin | Prepares compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding | ||
html-webpack-plugin | Simplifies creation of HTML files (index.html ) to serve your bundles |
Webpack enables the use of loaders to preprocess files. This allows you to bundle any static resource way beyond JavaScript. You can easily write your own loaders using Node.js.
Loaders are activated by using loadername!
prefixes in require()
statements, or are automatically applied via regex from your webpack configuration.
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
val-loader | Executes code as module and considers exports as JS code |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Loads and transpiles a CSON file |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Loads ES2015+ code and transpiles to ES5 using Babel | |||
Loads TypeScript like JavaScript | |||
Loads CoffeeScript like JavaScript |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Exports HTML as string, requires references to static resources | |||
Loads Pug templates and returns a function | |||
Compiles Markdown to HTML | |||
Loads and transforms a HTML file using PostHTML | |||
Compiles Handlebars to HTML |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
<style> | Add exports of a module as style to DOM | ||
Loads CSS file with resolved imports and returns CSS code | |||
Loads and compiles a LESS file | |||
Loads and compiles a Sass/SCSS file | |||
Loads and compiles a Stylus file | |||
Loads and transforms a CSS/SSS file using PostCSS |
Name | Status | Install Size | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Loads and compiles Vue Components | |||
Process HTML & CSS with preprocessor of choice and require() Web Components like first-class modules | |||
Loads and compiles Angular 2 Components | |||
Riot official webpack loader |
Webpack uses async I/O and has multiple caching levels. This makes webpack fast and incredibly fast on incremental compilations.
Webpack supports ES2015+, CommonJS and AMD modules out of the box. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries out of the box.
Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded asynchronously at runtime. This reduces the initial loading time.
Webpack can do many optimizations to reduce the output size of your JavaScript by deduplicating frequently used modules, minifying, and giving you full control of what is loaded initially and what is loaded at runtime through code splitting. It can also make your code chunks cache friendly by using hashes.
We want contributing to webpack to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for anyone, and everyone. We have a vibrant ecosystem that spans beyond this single repo. We welcome you to check out any of the repositories in our organization or webpack-contrib organization which houses all of our loaders and plugins.
Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on webpack, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions including:
To get started have a look at our documentation on contributing.
If you are worried or don't know where to start, you can always reach out to Sean Larkin (@TheLarkInn) on Twitter or simply submit an issue and a maintainer can help give you guidance!
We have also started a series on our Medium Publication called The Contributor's Guide to webpack. We welcome you to read it and post any questions or responses if you still need help.
Looking to speak about webpack? We'd love to review your talk abstract/CFP! You can email it to webpack [at] opencollective [dot] com and we can give pointers or tips!!!
If you create a loader or plugin, we would <3 for you to open source it, and put it on npm. We follow the x-loader
, x-webpack-plugin
naming convention.
We consider webpack to be a low-level tool used not only individually but also layered beneath other awesome tools. Because of its flexibility, webpack isn't always the easiest entry-level solution, however we do believe it is the most powerful. That said, we're always looking for ways to improve and simplify the tool without compromising functionality. If you have any ideas on ways to accomplish this, we're all ears!
If you're just getting started, take a look at our new docs and concepts page. This has a high level overview that is great for beginners!!
Looking for webpack 1 docs? Please check out the old wiki, but note that this deprecated version is no longer supported.
If you want to discuss something or just need help, here is our Gitter room where there are always individuals looking to help out!
If you are still having difficulty, we would love for you to post a question to StackOverflow with the webpack tag. It is much easier to answer questions that include your webpack.config.js and relevant files! So if you can provide them, we'd be extremely grateful (and more likely to help you find the answer!)
If you are twitter savvy you can tweet #webpack with your question and someone should be able to reach out and help also.
If you have discovered a đ or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on Github.
Author: Webpack
Source Code: https://github.com/webpack/webpack
License: MIT License
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This is the TypeScript loader for webpack.
yarn add ts-loader --dev
or
npm install ts-loader --save-dev
You will also need to install TypeScript if you have not already.
yarn add typescript --dev
or
npm install typescript --save-dev
Use webpack like normal, including webpack --watch
and webpack-dev-server
, or through another build system using the Node.js API.
We have a number of example setups to accommodate different workflows. Our examples can be found here.
We probably have more examples than we need. That said, here's a good way to get started:
ts-loader
ts-loader
just handling transpilation.As your project becomes bigger, compilation time increases linearly. It's because typescript's semantic checker has to inspect all files on every rebuild. The simple solution is to disable it by using the transpileOnly: true
option, but doing so leaves you without type checking and will not output declaration files.
You probably don't want to give up type checking; that's rather the point of TypeScript. So what you can do is use the fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin. It runs the type checker on a separate process, so your build remains fast thanks to transpileOnly: true
but you still have the type checking.
If you'd like to see a simple setup take a look at our example.
ts-loader
supports Yarn PlugânâPlay. The recommended way to integrate is using the pnp-webpack-plugin.
ts-loader
works very well in combination with babel and babel-loader. There is an example of this in the official TypeScript Samples.
ts-loader
8.x if you need webpack 4 support)A full test suite runs each night (and on each pull request). It runs both on Linux and Windows, testing ts-loader
against major releases of TypeScript. The test suite also runs against TypeScript@next (because we want to use it as much as you do).
If you become aware of issues not caught by the test suite then please let us know. Better yet, write a test and submit it in a PR!
Create or update webpack.config.js
like so:
module.exports = {
mode: "development",
devtool: "inline-source-map",
entry: "./app.ts",
output: {
filename: "bundle.js"
},
resolve: {
// Add `.ts` and `.tsx` as a resolvable extension.
extensions: [".ts", ".tsx", ".js"],
// Add support for TypeScripts fully qualified ESM imports.
extensionAlias: {
".js": [".js", ".ts"],
".cjs": [".cjs", ".cts"],
".mjs": [".mjs", ".mts"]
}
},
module: {
rules: [
// all files with a `.ts`, `.cts`, `.mts` or `.tsx` extension will be handled by `ts-loader`
{ test: /\.([cm]?ts|tsx)$/, loader: "ts-loader" }
]
}
};
Add a tsconfig.json
file. (The one below is super simple; but you can tweak this to your hearts desire)
{
"compilerOptions": {
"sourceMap": true
}
}
The tsconfig.json file controls TypeScript-related options so that your IDE, the tsc
command, and this loader all share the same options.
devtool
/ sourcemapsIf you want to be able to debug your original source then you can thanks to the magic of sourcemaps. There are 2 steps to getting this set up with ts-loader
and webpack.
First, for ts-loader
to produce sourcemaps, you will need to set the tsconfig.json option as "sourceMap": true
.
Second, you need to set the devtool
option in your webpack.config.js
to support the type of sourcemaps you want. To make your choice have a read of the devtool
webpack docs. You may be somewhat daunted by the choice available. You may also want to vary the sourcemap strategy depending on your build environment. Here are some example strategies for different environments:
devtool: 'inline-source-map'
- Solid sourcemap support; the best "all-rounder". Works well with karma-webpack (not all strategies do)devtool: 'eval-cheap-module-source-map'
- Best support for sourcemaps whilst debugging.devtool: 'source-map'
- Approach that plays well with UglifyJsPlugin; typically you might use this in ProductionLoading css and other resources is possible but you will need to make sure that you have defined the require
function in a declaration file.
declare var require: {
<T>(path: string): T;
(paths: string[], callback: (...modules: any[]) => void): void;
ensure: (
paths: string[],
callback: (require: <T>(path: string) => T) => void
) => void;
};
Then you can simply require assets or chunks per the webpack documentation.
require("!style!css!./style.css");
The same basic process is required for code splitting. In this case, you import
modules you need but you don't directly use them. Instead you require them at split points. See this example and this example for more details.
TypeScript 2.4 provides support for ECMAScript's new import()
calls. These calls import a module and return a promise to that module. This is also supported in webpack - details on usage can be found here. Happy code splitting!
To output declaration files (.d.ts), you can set "declaration": true in your tsconfig and set "transpileOnly" to false.
If you use ts-loader with "transpileOnly": true along with fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin, you will need to configure fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin to output definition files, you can learn more on the plugin's documentation page: https://github.com/TypeStrong/fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin#typescript-options
To output a built .d.ts file, you can use the DeclarationBundlerPlugin in your webpack config.
The build should fail on TypeScript compilation errors as of webpack 2. If for some reason it does not, you can use the webpack-fail-plugin.
For more background have a read of this issue.
baseUrl
/ paths
module resolutionIf you want to resolve modules according to baseUrl
and paths
in your tsconfig.json
then you can use the tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin package. For details about this functionality, see the module resolution documentation.
This feature requires webpack 2.1+ and TypeScript 2.0+. Use the config below or check the package for more information on usage.
const TsconfigPathsPlugin = require('tsconfig-paths-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
...
resolve: {
plugins: [new TsconfigPathsPlugin({ configFile: "./path/to/tsconfig.json" })]
}
...
}
There are two types of options: TypeScript options (aka "compiler options") and loader options. TypeScript options should be set using a tsconfig.json file. Loader options can be specified through the options
property in the webpack configuration:
module.exports = {
...
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.tsx?$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'ts-loader',
options: {
transpileOnly: true
}
}
]
}
]
}
}
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
If you want to speed up compilation significantly you can set this flag. However, many of the benefits you get from static type checking between different dependencies in your application will be lost. transpileOnly
will not speed up compilation of project references.
It's advisable to use transpileOnly
alongside the fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin to get full type checking again. To see what this looks like in practice then either take a look at our example.
Tip: When you add the fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin to your webpack config, the
transpileOnly
will default totrue
, so you can skip that option.
If you enable this option, webpack 4 will give you "export not found" warnings any time you re-export a type:
WARNING in ./src/bar.ts
1:0-34 "export 'IFoo' was not found in './foo'
@ ./src/bar.ts
@ ./src/index.ts
The reason this happens is that when typescript doesn't do a full type check, it does not have enough information to determine whether an imported name is a type or not, so when the name is then exported, typescript has no choice but to emit the export. Fortunately, the extraneous export should not be harmful, so you can just suppress these warnings:
module.exports = {
...
stats: {
warningsFilter: /export .* was not found in/
}
}
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
If you're using HappyPack or thread-loader to parallelise your builds then you'll need to set this to true
. This implicitly sets *transpileOnly*
to true
and WARNING! stops registering all errors to webpack.
It's advisable to use this with the fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin to get full type checking again. IMPORTANT: If you are using fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin alongside HappyPack or thread-loader then ensure you set the syntactic
diagnostic option like so:
new ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin({
typescript: {
diagnosticOptions: {
semantic: true,
syntactic: true,
},
},
})
This will ensure that the plugin checks for both syntactic errors (eg const array = [{} {}];
) and semantic errors (eg const x: number = '1';
). By default the plugin only checks for semantic errors (as when used with ts-loader
in transpileOnly
mode, ts-loader
will still report syntactic errors).
Also, if you are using thread-loader
in watch mode, remember to set poolTimeout: Infinity
so workers don't die.
These options should be functions which will be used to resolve the import statements and the <reference types="...">
directives instead of the default TypeScript implementation. It's not intended that these will typically be used by a user of ts-loader
- they exist to facilitate functionality such as Yarn PlugânâPlay.
Type |
---|
(program: Program, getProgram: () => Program) => { before?: TransformerFactory<SourceFile>[]; after?: TransformerFactory<SourceFile>[]; afterDeclarations?: TransformerFactory<SourceFile>[]; } |
Provide custom transformers - only compatible with TypeScript 2.3+ (and 2.4 if using transpileOnly
mode). For example usage take a look at typescript-plugin-styled-components or our test.
You can also pass a path string to locate a js module file which exports the function described above, this useful especially in happyPackMode
. (Because forked processes cannot serialize functions see more at related issue)
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
This is important if you read from stdout or stderr and for proper error handling. The default value ensures that you can read from stdout e.g. via pipes or you use webpack -j to generate json output.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string | warn |
Can be info
, warn
or error
which limits the log output to the specified log level. Beware of the fact that errors are written to stderr and everything else is written to stderr (or stdout if logInfoToStdOut is true).
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
If true
, no console.log messages will be emitted. Note that most error messages are emitted via webpack which is not affected by this flag.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
number[] | [] |
You can squelch certain TypeScript errors by specifying an array of diagnostic codes to ignore.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string[] | [] |
Only report errors on files matching these glob patterns.
// in webpack.config.js
{
test: /\.ts$/,
loader: 'ts-loader',
options: { reportFiles: ['src/**/*.{ts,tsx}', '!src/skip.ts'] }
}
This can be useful when certain types definitions have errors that are not fatal to your application.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string | 'typescript' |
Allows use of TypeScript compilers other than the official one. Should be set to the NPM name of the compiler, eg ntypescript
.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string | 'tsconfig.json' |
Allows you to specify where to find the TypeScript configuration file.
You may provide
.ts
entry file.Please note, that if the configuration file is outside of your project directory, you might need to set the context
option to avoid TypeScript issues (like TS18003). In this case the configFile
should point to the tsconfig.json
and context
to the project root.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | true |
If false
, disables built-in colors in logger messages.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
(message: ErrorInfo, colors: boolean) => string | undefined |
By default ts-loader
formats TypeScript compiler output for an error or a warning in the style:
[tsl] ERROR in myFile.ts(3,14)
TS4711: you did something very wrong
If that format is not to your taste you can supply your own formatter using the errorFormatter
option. Below is a template for a custom error formatter. Please note that the colors
parameter is an instance of chalk
which you can use to color your output. (This instance will respect the colors
option.)
function customErrorFormatter(error, colors) {
const messageColor =
error.severity === "warning" ? colors.bold.yellow : colors.bold.red;
return (
"Does not compute.... " +
messageColor(Object.keys(error).map(key => `${key}: ${error[key]}`))
);
}
If the above formatter received an error like this:
{
"code":2307,
"severity": "error",
"content": "Cannot find module 'components/myComponent2'.",
"file":"/.test/errorFormatter/app.ts",
"line":2,
"character":31
}
It would produce an error message that said:
Does not compute.... code: 2307,severity: error,content: Cannot find module 'components/myComponent2'.,file: /.test/errorFormatter/app.ts,line: 2,character: 31
And the bit after "Does not compute.... " would be red.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
object | {} |
Allows overriding TypeScript options. Should be specified in the same format as you would do for the compilerOptions
property in tsconfig.json.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string | TODO |
Advanced option to force files to go through different instances of the TypeScript compiler. Can be used to force segregation between different parts of your code.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
(RegExp | string)[] | [] |
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
(RegExp | string)[] | [] |
A list of regular expressions to be matched against filename. If filename matches one of the regular expressions, a .ts
or .tsx
suffix will be appended to that filename. If you're using HappyPack or thread-loader with ts-loader
, you need use the string
type for the regular expressions, not RegExp
object.
// change this:
{ appendTsSuffixTo: [/\.vue$/] }
// to:
{ appendTsSuffixTo: ['\\.vue$'] }
This is useful for *.vue
file format for now. (Probably will benefit from the new single file format in the future.)
Example:
webpack.config.js:
module.exports = {
entry: "./index.vue",
output: { filename: "bundle.js" },
resolve: {
extensions: [".ts", ".vue"]
},
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.vue$/, loader: "vue-loader" },
{
test: /\.ts$/,
loader: "ts-loader",
options: { appendTsSuffixTo: [/\.vue$/] }
}
]
}
};
index.vue
<template><p>hello {{msg}}</p></template>
<script lang="ts">
export default {
data(): Object {
return {
msg: "world"
};
}
};
</script>
We can handle .tsx
by quite similar way:
webpack.config.js:
module.exports = {
entry: './index.vue',
output: { filename: 'bundle.js' },
resolve: {
extensions: ['.ts', '.tsx', '.vue', '.vuex']
},
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.vue$/, loader: 'vue-loader',
options: {
loaders: {
ts: 'ts-loader',
tsx: 'babel-loader!ts-loader',
}
}
},
{ test: /\.ts$/, loader: 'ts-loader', options: { appendTsSuffixTo: [/TS\.vue$/] } }
{ test: /\.tsx$/, loader: 'babel-loader!ts-loader', options: { appendTsxSuffixTo: [/TSX\.vue$/] } }
]
}
}
tsconfig.json (set jsx
option to preserve
to let babel handle jsx)
{
"compilerOptions": {
"jsx": "preserve"
}
}
index.vue
<script lang="tsx">
export default {
functional: true,
render(h, c) {
return (<div>Content</div>);
}
}
</script>
Or if you want to use only tsx, just use the appendTsxSuffixTo
option only:
{ test: /\.ts$/, loader: 'ts-loader' }
{ test: /\.tsx$/, loader: 'babel-loader!ts-loader', options: { appendTsxSuffixTo: [/\.vue$/] } }
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
The default behavior of ts-loader
is to act as a drop-in replacement for the tsc
command, so it respects the include
, files
, and exclude
options in your tsconfig.json
, loading any files specified by those options. The onlyCompileBundledFiles
option modifies this behavior, loading only those files that are actually bundled by webpack, as well as any .d.ts
files included by the tsconfig.json
settings. .d.ts
files are still included because they may be needed for compilation without being explicitly imported, and therefore not picked up by webpack.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | determined by typescript based on platform |
The default behavior of ts-loader
is to act as a drop-in replacement for the tsc
command, so it respects the useCaseSensitiveFileNames
set internally by typescript. The useCaseSensitiveFileNames
option modifies this behavior, by changing the way in which ts-loader resolves file paths to compile. Setting this to true can have some performance benefits due to simplifying the file resolution codepath.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
By default, ts-loader
will not compile .ts
files in node_modules
. You should not need to recompile .ts
files there, but if you really want to, use this option. Note that this option acts as a whitelist - any modules you desire to import must be included in the "files"
or "include"
block of your project's tsconfig.json
.
See: microsoft/TypeScript#12358
// in webpack.config.js
{
test: /\.ts$/,
loader: 'ts-loader',
options: { allowTsInNodeModules: true }
}
And in your tsconfig.json
:
{
"include": [
"node_modules/whitelisted_module.ts"
],
"files": [
"node_modules/my_module/whitelisted_file.ts"
]
}
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
string | undefined |
If set, will parse the TypeScript configuration file with given absolute path as base path. Per default the directory of the configuration file is used as base path. Relative paths in the configuration file are resolved with respect to the base path when parsed. Option context
allows to set option configFile
to a path other than the project root (e.g. a NPM package), while the base path for ts-loader
can remain the project root.
Keep in mind that not having a tsconfig.json
in your project root can cause different behaviour between ts-loader
and tsc
. When using editors like VS Code
it is advised to add a tsconfig.json
file to the root of the project and extend the config file referenced in option configFile
. For more information please read the PR that is the base and read the PR that contributed this option.
webpack:
{
loader: require.resolve('ts-loader'),
options: {
context: __dirname,
configFile: require.resolve('ts-config-react-app')
}
}
Extending tsconfig.json
:
{ "extends": "./node_modules/ts-config-react-app/index" }
Note that changes in the extending file while not be respected by ts-loader
. Its purpose is to satisfy the code editor.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | true |
By default whenever the TypeScript compiler needs to check that a file/directory exists or resolve symlinks it makes syscalls. It does not cache the result of these operations and this may result in many syscalls with the same arguments (see comment with example). In some cases it may produce performance degradation.
This flag enables caching for some FS-functions like fileExists
, realpath
and directoryExists
for TypeScript compiler. Note that caches are cleared between compilations.
Type | Default Value |
---|---|
boolean | false |
ts-loader has opt-in support for project references. With this configuration option enabled, ts-loader
will incrementally rebuild upstream projects the same way tsc --build
does. Otherwise, source files in referenced projects will be treated as if theyâre part of the root project.
In order to make use of this option your project needs to be correctly configured to build the project references and then to use them as part of the build. See the Project References Guide and the example code in the examples which can be found here.
Because TS will generate .js and .d.ts files, you should ignore these files, otherwise watchers may go into an infinite watch loop. For example, when using webpack, you may wish to add this to your webpack.conf.js file:
// for webpack 4
plugins: [
new webpack.WatchIgnorePlugin([
/\.js$/,
/\.d\.[cm]?ts$/
])
],
// for webpack 5
plugins: [
new webpack.WatchIgnorePlugin({
paths:[
/\.js$/,
/\.d\.[cm]ts$/
]})
],
It's worth noting that use of the LoaderOptionsPlugin
is only supposed to be a stopgap measure. You may want to look at removing it entirely.
We do not support HMR as we did not yet work out a reliable way how to set it up.
If you want to give webpack-dev-server
HMR a try, follow the official webpack HMR guide, then tweak a few config options for ts-loader
:
transpileOnly
to true
(see transpileOnly for config details and recommendations above).This is your TypeScript loader! We want you to help make it even better. Please feel free to contribute; see the contributor's guide to get started.
ts-loader
was started by James Brantly, since 2016 John Reilly has been taking good care of it. If you're interested, you can read more about how that came to pass.
Author: TypeStrong
Source Code: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader
License: MIT license
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istanbul-loader
This is a webpack loader that uses istanbul-lib-instrument to add code coverage instrumentation to JavaScript files.
Install with
npm install @theintern/istanbul-loader --save-dev
Install the loader in a project and add an entry for it to the project's webpack.config:
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /src\/.*\.ts$/,
use: '@theintern/istanbul-loader'
},
...
]
}
Note that the istanbul-loader should be run after transpilers such as TypeScript. This means that it should come before transpilers in a loader list, or use enforce: 'post'
:
rules: [
{
test: /src\/.(\.ts$/,
use: [ '@theintern/istanbul-loader', 'ts-node' ]
},
...
]
or
rules: [
{
test: /src\/.(\.ts$/,
use: '@theintern/istanbul-loader',
enforce: 'post'
},
...
]
The rule test should only match source files, not all .ts
or .js
files, so as not to instrument tests or support files.
Options can be passed using the standard webpack options
property:
rules: [
{
test: /src\/.(\.ts$/,
use: {
loader: '@theintern/istanbul-loader',
options: { config: 'tests/intern.json' }
}
},
...
]
Currently the only option used by the loader is 'config', which should point to an Intern config file. The loader will use values for coverageVariable
and instrumenterOptions
from the Intern config, if present.
Author: Theintern
Source Code: https://github.com/theintern/istanbul-loader
License: View license