Loading a webpack or parcel app from "dist" folder

From the documentation as well as the sample app it's difficult to ascertain how one would load and call the build/dist files of a web app. I've added the index.html and all the supporting js files from the dist using the following code. As it stands none of the javascript I've loaded executes. What step(s) am I missing? Thanks in advance! (PS. the dom query is to get the latest name of the app.js file which changes with each new dist generation)

function webviewLoaded(args){
  console.log('/// webviewLoaded ///', args)
  const dom = parser.parseFromString(indxHtmlFile.readTextSync());
  var dist_js_str = dom.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].getAttribute('src');
  var dist_js_bytes = "this should change";
  var dist_js_path;
  webview = args.object;
  webview.on('hello', (e)=>{
    console.log("MESSAGE FROM WEBVIEWEXT", e)
  })
  webview.on(WebViewExt.loadFinishedEvent, (args) => {
    console.log("/// loadFinishedEvent ///")
    webview = args.object
    const js_files = www_folder_entities.filter(function (e) {
      if(e._extension === '.js'){
        webview.registerLocalResource(e._name, e._path)
        if(e._path.includes(dist_js_str)){
          if(fileExists(e._path)){
            var dist_js_file = www_folder.getFile(e._path)
            dist_js_bytes = dist_js_file.readTextSync()
          }
        }
        return {resourceName:e._name, filepath:e._path};
      }
    })
    webview.loadJavaScriptFiles(js_files)
    // this works
    //webview.autoExecuteJavaScript("window.nsWebViewBridge.emit('hello', {'hello':'world'})")
    // this does not
    //console.log(dist_js_bytes)
    webview.autoExecuteJavaScript(dist_js_bytes)
  })
  webview.registerLocalResource('index_html', indxHtmlPath)
  webview.loadUrl(indxHtmlPath)

Notalib / nativescript-webview-ext

Loading a webpack or parcel app from "dist" folder #54