webpack

Get Started

Check out webpack’s quick Get Started guide and the other guides.

Plugins

Webpack has a rich plugin interface. Most of the features within webpack itself use this plugin interface. This makes webpack very flexible.

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
mini-css-extract-plugin			Extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS.
compression-webpack-plugin			Prepares compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding
html-webpack-plugin			Simplifies creation of HTML files (index.html) to serve your bundles
pug-plugin			Renders Pug files to HTML, extracts JS and CSS from sources specified directly in Pug.

Loaders

Webpack enables the use of loaders to preprocess files. This allows you to bundle any static resource way beyond JavaScript. You can easily write your own loaders using Node.js.

Loaders are activated by using loadername! prefixes in require() statements, or are automatically applied via regex from your webpack configuration.

Files

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
val-loader			Executes code as module and considers exports as JS code

JSON

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
			Loads and transpiles a CSON file

Transpiling

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
			Loads ES2015+ code and transpiles to ES5 using Babel
			Loads TypeScript like JavaScript
			Loads CoffeeScript like JavaScript

Templating

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
			Exports HTML as string, requires references to static resources
			Loads Pug templates and returns a function
			Compiles Pug to a function or HTML string, useful for use with Vue, React, Angular
			Compiles Markdown to HTML
			Loads and transforms a HTML file using PostHTML
			Compiles Handlebars to HTML

Styling

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
<style>			Add exports of a module as style to DOM
			Loads CSS file with resolved imports and returns CSS code
			Loads and compiles a LESS file
			Loads and compiles a Sass/SCSS file
			Loads and compiles a Stylus file
			Loads and transforms a CSS/SSS file using PostCSS

Frameworks

Name	Status	Install Size	Description
			Loads and compiles Vue Components
			Process HTML & CSS with preprocessor of choice and require() Web Components like first-class modules
			Loads and compiles Angular 2 Components
			Riot official webpack loader
			Official Svelte loader

Performance

Webpack uses async I/O and has multiple caching levels. This makes webpack fast and incredibly fast on incremental compilations.

Code Splitting

Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded asynchronously at runtime. This reduces the initial loading time.