Webpack 3 Boilerplate for beginners

A basic webpack 3 boilerplate for beginners to start with any JS/ES6 based project.

Guide

This basic boilerplate is the final output of this comprehensive write up on Medium. I recommend to read this article to know the insight of how you can configure webpack from scratch. Webpack 3 quickstarter: Configure webpack from scratch

Install dependencies

npm install

Develop locally with webpack-dev-server

1. Run

npm run dev

2. In your browser, navigate to: http://localhost:2000/

For bundled output

npm run build

For production-ready output

npm run build:prod

Loaders and Plugins used in this boilerplate

Loaders

• babel-loader
• html-loader
• sass-loader
• css-loader
• style-loader
• file-loader

Plugins

• clean-webpack-plugin
• extract-text-webpack-plugin
• html-webpack-plugin