ES6 SASS Webpack 2 starter kit

This is a barebone minimalistic starter kit for kicking off an ES6, SASS, Webpack 2 project.

Usage

Prerequisite

Make sure you have node and npm installed. This project uses yarn-pkg. If don't have yarn yet, you can install it as:

$ npm install yarn -g

Preparations

• Clone this repo git clone git@github.com:iamvijaydev/es6-sass-webpack2-starterkit.git
• You can also download the repo, without git initialization
• Rename the folder es6-sass-webpack2-starterkit to a desired one
• Update package.json - name, version, description, author, repository and keywords to your requirement

Install packages

Now run yarn install to install all the dev-dependency packages.

Start server

Now run npm start to start the dev server. Open localhost:3000 in browser to view the output.

Start coding

• Entry for webpack is in src/scripts/index.js. Unless you are sure what you are doing you should not move or rename this file. You sure can edit it.
• Entry for SCSS file is src/scss/styles.scss and is added as first line in src/scripts/index.js. Unless you are sure what you are doing wou should not edit this.
• Apart from the above settings you can develop the app's file and folders as you like.
• As you make edit the code, the changes are updated in browser without reloading.

Build for production

Run npm run build to generate the files in build folder

FAQ

Q: Where is build/ folder and where are the build files.

A: While you are developing with npm start, the webpack-dev-server won't write any files to disk. It will be serving the build files from memory.

Q: I don't want Hot Module Reloading

A: Please remove hot and inline from devServer object in webpack.config.js file (code). Additionally also remove the plugin new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin() from plugins array (code).

Q: How to disable historyApiFallback

A: Please remove historyApiFallback from devServer object in webpack.config.js file (code).