How to include node_modules using webpack? - angularjs

Question

In my angularJs 1.3 application, earlier I was using bower and grunt and it was working fine. I was adding files in my index.html like the following screenshot. But now I have installed all the packages using NPM and using WEbPack 4.21.0 for bundling and run the application. But now if I remove the packages link from Index.html file my application stops working. But I don't want all those links in Index.html and just want to generate a bundle file from those files. Kindly guide me how can I achieve this? Currently, its just adding angular.js file and few other files in vendor.js.
Index.html
Package.json
webpack.config.js
Updated Question:
Now i am using following webpack.config.js but its creating bootstrap_and_some_plugin.css.js . It has to create css file but don't know why it's creating js file?
module.exports = {
context: __dirname + '/app/scripts',
resolve: {
modules: ['bower_components', 'node_modules'],
alias: {
bower_components: __dirname + '/app/bower_components',
assets: __dirname + '/app/assets'
},
extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.css']
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css$/,
use: [
{ loader: "style-loader" },
{ loader: "css-loader" }
]
},
{
test: /\.(woff(2)?|ttf|eot|svg)(\?v=\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?$/,
use: [{
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
name: '[name].[ext]',
outputPath: 'fonts/'
}
}]
}
]
},
entry: {
app: './main-app.js',
'bootstrap_and_some_plugin.css': [
'bower_components/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css',
'bower_components/seiyria-bootstrap-slider/dist/css/bootstrap-slider.min.css',
'bower_components/angular-ui-tree/dist/angular-ui-tree.min.css',
]
},
output: {
filename: '[name].js',
path: __dirname + '/app/scripts',
//chunkFilename: '[id].[chunkhash].js',
},
devServer: {
contentBase: './app',
host: 'localhost',
port: '9000',
inline: true,
compress: true,
proxy: {
'/api/**': {
//target: 'http://10.189.1.159:8080',
target: 'http://localhost:9100',
secure: false,
changeOrigin: true,
cookieDomainRewrite: true
}
},
open: true
},
plugins: [
]
};

Answer 1

In the file webpack.config.js, you add this property inside the resolve property:
resolve: {
alias: {
bower_components: __dirname + '/app/bower_components'
}
}
In the file main-app.js, if you want to use some js file, you call like this:
require('bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js');
require('bower_components/angular/angular.js');
require('bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js');
// ...
You need to specify the path of the file webpack.config.js. In my example, all the path looks like:
your_project
webpack.config.js
app
bower_components
jquery
...
angular
...
bootstrap
...
__dirname refers to the current path of the js file which is using it. If you use __dirname inside the webpack.config.js file, it will render your_project. Or using it inside jquery.js, it will render your_project\app\bowser_components\jquery\dist.
Then, build to bundle.js file and delete all the path in the Index.cshtml file.
Hope this helps!
UPDATE: If your js target file goes too big. You can split modules to multiple parts, like this:
entry: {
'bootstrap_and_some_plugin.css': [
'./app/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css',
'./app/bower_components/some-plugin/css/some-plugin.css'
],
'jquery_and_angular.js': [
'./app/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js',
'./app/bower_components/angular/angular.js'
],
'site.js': ['./js/site']
}
Then, in your Index.cshtml:
<link href="bootstrap_and_some_plugin.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!-- body content -->
<script src="jquery_and_angular.js"></script>
<script src="site.js"></script>
UPDATE 2: You need to install the 2 packages babili-webpack-plugin and extract-text-webpack-plugin
In the file webpack.config.js:
// define these variables before "module.exports"
var BabiliPlugin = require('babili-webpack-plugin');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {...};
Then, setting the pluggin options:
plugins: [
new BabiliPlugin({}, { test: /\.js$/, comments: false }),
new ExtractTextPlugin('[name]'),
... and other options
]
and the output options:
output: {
filename: '[name]',
... and other options
}