I'm using webpack to run my react frontend successfully using the following config:
{
name: 'client',
entry: './scripts/main.js',
output: {
path: __dirname,
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /.jsx?$/,
loader: 'babel-loader',
exclude: /node_modules/,
query:{
presets: ['es2015', 'react', 'stage-2']
}
}
]
}
}
I'm trying to put up a node.js express backend as well, and would like to run that through webpack as well, so that I have a single server running both the backend and frontend, and because I want to use babel to transpile my javascript.
I made a quick testserver looking like this:
var express = require('express');
console.log('test');
var app = express();
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send("Hello world from Express!!");
});
app.listen(3000, function(){
console.log('Example app listening on port 3000');
});
If I run this with node index.js
and open my browser on localhost:3000
it prints "Hello world from Express!!". So far so good. Then I tried creating a web-pack config for it:
var fs = require('fs');
var nodeModules = {};
fs.readdirSync('node_modules')
.filter(function(x) {
return ['.bin'].indexOf(x) === -1;
})
.forEach(function(mod) {
nodeModules[mod] = 'commonjs ' + mod;
});
module.exports = [
{
name: 'server',
target: 'node',
entry: './index.js',
output: {
path: __dirname,
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
externals: nodeModules,
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
loaders: [
'babel-loader'
]
},
{
test: /\.json$/,
loader: 'json-loader'
}
]
}
}
When I run the command webpack-dev-server
it starts up successfully (it seems). However, if I go to my browser on localhost:3000
now, it just says that the webpage is not available, just as when the server is not running at all.
I'm very new to both node and webpack, so either I have made a small mistake somewhere, or I'm way off ;)