What is the purpose of this, weex-vue-loader and vue-loader?

[n3ps]

Is it possible to simplify?

Use the new vue-loader and make this a vue-loader "plugin"?

[xfront]

I like this idea!

[Hanks10100]

The weex-vue-loader offers an equivalent function with vue-loader but only for the Weex platform. To be pecific. it's a webpack loader whick can be used to compile the *.vue files into *.js files for Weex platfrom.

Compare to the vue-loader, it's using different sub-packages to handle each part of *.vue files. In weex-vue-loader:

• The <template> part will be processed by the weex-template-compiler package, it'll be converted into a render function of Vue component. The corresponding package within vue-loader is vue-template-compiler.
• The <style> part will finally be processed by the weex-styler package, it'll be converted into a JSON-like object for Weex platform, which is different with the web.
• The process of the <script> part is same with the vue-loader.

[Hanks10100]

The weex-loader is just a wrapper of weex-vue-loader.

Because this packages was originally designed to supportting all DSL frameworks of Weex. But after practice, we think it may not a good idea to mantain those dsl framework compliers. Now this package is mainly for compiling the *.vue files, so you can think it as a simple wrapper of weex-vue-loader.

Actually, besides the *.vue file, it can also compile the *.we files, which is a legacy framework of Weex (It was inspired by Vue 1.0, since Weex support the Vue 2.0 officially, that framework is deprecated).