I'm creating a new reactjs project using the create-react-app. Currently the application should support only modern browsers, However the file generated by the webpack / build process is using ES5. After eject I have fully access to webpack.config and tsconfig file, but I didn`t find the cofiguration to achieve this.
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I have three packages inside standard lerna monorepo.
client
react library
core
Core - is a shared component library with some utils (may or may not publish on npm).
React library is component library which will be shared on npm.
client is a bundled js library which will be consumed in browser with static html files.
core is a dependency in react-lib as well as client
Question 1 - How to setup core, should I transpile with tsc and bundle with tools such as rollup or vite (i personally prefer vite/rollup over webpack). or just leave it as is and import it in client and react-lib with absolute paths like 'core/src/*"?
Question 2 - can i build core in 'es' format and build client just like normal react app with either cra or vite. I tried this but i think i am missing something as final bundle doesn't seem to work in browser.
Any help would be really appreciated.
You have a few questions and I might not be able to answer them all but hopefully enough to guide you for the solution you're looking for.
Core - is a shared component library with some utils (may or may not publish on npm).
If you want to use Lerna then I guess you'll have to eventually publish the package on npm or a private repository. As an alternative, you could also use pnpm workspaces and their workspace: protocol which will allow you to link the packages in your workspace (monorepo) without ever downloading them from npm, for example if you use workspace:* then it will always use and link to the latest code from your local workspace. You could also use workspace: protocol with Lerna (or Lerna-Lite) since they both support it.
For your next Questions, I'll answer the last part of your Question 1 first because that affects the other portion of the question.
Question 1: ...or just leave it as is and import it in client and react-lib with absolute paths like 'core/src/*'?
Use absolute paths outside of the package is not a good thing to do since it will only work on your local project and you cannot publish that to npm since it will be broken for the other users. It's better to stick with the workspace and let the package use the main or exports entries defined in your package.json. In other words, it's preferable to always build/transpile and let your other package use the transpiled code and if you need to debug then make sure to also include sourcemap
Question 1: How to setup core, should I transpile with tsc and bundle with tools such as rollup or vite (i personally prefer vite/rollup over webpack)
It probably doesn't matter which one you use TypeScript, Rollup or WebPack, In one of my project I use TypeScript in watch mode, it will auto-transpile whenever you change your code, the downside is that the more packages you have then the more TypeScript threads are opened in watch mode (1x per package) but in your case if you only have 3 then it's fine, there's also this TypeScript issue that I'm following which will hopefully bring multi-threaded compilation in the future. You could also use Rollup and the concept would be the same, use it in watch mode for each package (I've done it with Vite/Rollup using vite build --watch
as explained in the next paragraph).
You can take a look at a project I've done Vue 3 and pnpm workspace using pnpm workspace with the workspace: protocol, it uses Rollup for transpiling and also uses Vite library mode which allows to bundle your library for distribution (on npm or others...), this allows you to bundle each package as a lib that is easily reusable by other projects. It's a Vue 3 project, so it's not a React project but it should give you enough ideas on how to do in React and it should help to answer your Question 2. Also that project is not using Lerna/Lerna-Lite but since it uses the workspace: protocol then it would be super easy to add Lerna on top of it in the future (basically just adding the lerna.json config should be enough)
I come from a background in Angular, but I wanted to start learning React. I want to make a React front-end for a nodejs Express web service.
In Angular, I could simply build the source code into a static folder with a standard index.html, and it can be deployed on any web server. With React however, every tutorial I see is about running React in its own server using create-react-app and npm start.
I know you can also just use script tags to import the React framework in a static page, but then you can't use JSX syntax, and I would like to. Is it possible to simply build a React project into a static folder with an index.html that can be deployed on any web server?
Yep, you can do what you're describing. If you want to use JSX syntax, you'll need Babel, which transpiles it into standard JavaScript.
You can avoid the complexities of setting it up by using create-react-app to create the app, then running npm build instead of npm start. This will compile everything into a build directory, complete with index.html.
CRA uses its server for development purposes. You don't need CRA for using React of course. But, as your app getting bigger and bigger you will need some more extra tools. For example you want to see your code instantly without refreshing your browser. Here comes the dev server and hot reloading.
CRA uses Webpack behind the scenes. It is a great tool for bundling (obviously) all your files (including css), minifying, uglifying, optimizing your code etc.
For simple code or testing purposes using one file and attaching React and Babel to your file could be enough but for real apps you will need more. Either you will use something like Webpack on your own or you will use CRA and let it do all the extra stuff for you.
I'm trying to migrate to webpack from grunt and trying to figure out the best way to bundle less files during development .
Is there a way to configure webpack to build less files into a bundle without having to use imports ?
The issue here is that the project is based on es5 Javascript.
I am a beginner with reactjs so I start to create a site, I do all installations, I installed Webpack to generate automatically the bundle.js all it works well and the file bundle.js is well generated but nothing that posster on the index page (page index is empty) and there are also no errors on the console. Somewhat help me please
It can be a bit messy to get up & running if you're not experienced with these technologies and how module bundling in Webpack works.
This is exactly why Facebook created the "create-react-app" solution so that you can get running without any build config and focus on creating the app that you're after instead. You can use it and "eject" to a custom setup anytime and see how they've done it:
create-react-app by Facebook
Here is a guide that you can follow along to create a simple config build:
Setup a React Environment Using webpack and Babel
You can also check out some of the other solutions that the community offers, here is a list of 143 React starter projects:
Find your perfect React starter project
I'm trying to use webpack with my angular-meteor application. Unfortunately the meteor build fails with the following error:
While determining active plugins:
error: conflict: two packages included in the app (pbastowski:angular-babel and webpack:webpack) are both trying to handle *.js
The angular-meteor package has a dependency on pbastowski:angular-babel for ES2015 support, while webpack uses the babel-loader. Any idea how I can avoid this conflict?
This is a Meteor message that will appear when two Meteor packages try to add a Meteor compiler plugin for the same file extension, in this case ".js".
Option 1
Remove webpack:webpack from your project. Do you really need webpack in your Meteor project? Meteor bundles everything for you, so, there is no need to use webpack, as such. If you want to use ES6 modules then consider using pbastowski:systemjs.
meteor remove webpack:webpack
I don't know your reasons for using webpack, but I thought I'd mention this option.
Option 2
You can configure pbastowski:angular-babel to not compile ".js" files by adding the line below to babel.json in your Meteor project's root folder. However, if you do this, Babel will only compile ".es6.js" files and not ".js" files.
babel.json
{
"extensions": ["es6.js"]
}
Some people here are trying to say that Webpack is useless but they really don't know much about it.
It can helps you bundle a lot better your assets.
You can bundle better your CSS and even have local CSS (css that is not applied globally but only in a section of your page)
You can do code splitting and not serve your entire app on the first page load
You can have hot-reloading with no page refresh (at least with React ;))
You can use angular and Webpack together without any problem. Here is what you need to do:
meteor remove angular
meteor add angular-meteor-data
meteor add angular-templates
The only missing piece then is ng-annotate and luckily, there is a few ways. You can use the ng-annotate-loader or ng-annotate-webpack-plugin in your Webpack config file.