Images are not loading in browser with react, webpack and express - reactjs

Question

I am working on a site build in react. It was working fine until I have implemented express. After implementation of express, I am not able to load some resources, especially images in the browser. The image path is coming correct but images are not showing in the browser.
webpack.config.js is:
var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin");
module.exports = {
devtool: 'eval-source-map',
entry: [
'webpack-hot-middleware/client?reload=true',
path.join(__dirname, 'app/index.js')
],
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, '/dist/'),
filename: '[name].js',
publicPath: '/'
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin('/bundle.css', { allChunks: true }),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: 'app/index.html',
inject: 'body',
filename: 'index.html'
}),
new webpack.optimize.OccurrenceOrderPlugin(),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify('production')
})
],
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.scss', '.css', '.js', '.json'],
modulesDirectories: [
'node_modules',
path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules')
]
},
module: {
loaders: [{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
loader: 'babel',
query: {
"presets": ["react", "es2015", "stage-0", "react-hmre"]
}
}, {
test: /\.json?$/,
loader: 'json'
}, {
test: /\.scss$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style', 'css?sourceMap&modules&importLoaders=1&localIdentName=[name]__[local]___[hash:base64:5]!postcss!sass')
}, {
test: /\.css$/,
loader: 'style-loader!css-loader'
},{
test: /\.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|woff|woff2)$/,
loader: "url-loader?limit=10000"
},{
test: /\.less$/, loader: "style-loader!css-loader!less-loader"
},{
test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg|woff|woff2)(\?v=[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])?$/,
loader: "file-loader"
}]
}
};
server.js file content is as follows:
const path = require("path");
const express = require("express");
const webpack = require("webpack");
const webpackDevMiddleware = require("webpack-dev-middleware");
const webpackHotMiddleware = require("webpack-hot-middleware");
const config = require("./webpack.config.js");
const app = express(),
DIST_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "dist"),
HTML_FILE = path.join(DIST_DIR, "index.html"),
isDevelopment = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production",
DEFAULT_PORT = 3000,
compiler = webpack(config);
app.set("port", process.env.PORT || DEFAULT_PORT);
if (isDevelopment) {
app.use(webpackDevMiddleware(compiler, {
publicPath: config.output.publicPath
}));
app.use(webpackHotMiddleware(compiler));
app.get("*", (req, res, next) => {
compiler.outputFileSystem.readFile(HTML_FILE, (err, result) => {
if (err) {
return next(err);
}
res.set('content-type', 'text/html');
res.send(result);
res.end();
});
});
}
else {
app.use(express.static(DIST_DIR));
app.get("*", (req, res) => res.sendFile(HTML_FILE));
}
app.listen(app.get("port"));
package.json is as follows:
"main": "server.js",
"script": {
"start": "babel-node server-es6.js",
"build:server": "babel server-es6.js --out-file server.js",
"build:client": "webpack -p --config webpack.config.js --progress"
},
Site is loading but some css are not loading. Console throw error:
GET http://bundle.css/ net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
Image path comes correctly as http://localhost:3000/img/img1.png but it's not showing in the browser. I think the issue is with webpack public path.
When I am using <img src={require('/images/image-name.png')} />, its working fine. But I don't want to do that because it's very heavy codebase and also I think it's not a nice solution.
I have taken help from webpack-express-boilerplate.
In chrome Network tool, image type is coming as text/html.

Answer 1

If your file path is static, you can import the file once and then provide it as a src
import image from '/path/to/images/image-name.png';
...
<img src={image} />