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aurelia / webpack-plugin

A plugin for webpack that enables bundling Aurelia applications.
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Empty bundle with Webpack 2. Docs? #83

Closed jods4 closed 7 years ago

jods4 commented 7 years ago

I wanted to give Aurelia a try with Webpack, but I couldn't get it working. I'm using Webpack 2 (is that supported?). I am doing everything from scratch and without easy-webpack as I like to understand how things work and have some fine control.

This doc Using normal webpack was the best info I found. It references webpack@2.1-beta.25 so I figured it ought to work.

Note that the doc says this:

      entry: {
          'app': [], // <-- this array will be filled by the aurelia-webpack-plugin

But webpack reports an error if you leave app empty. What should we put there?

Then my understanding from the docs was that with the aurelia-webpack plugin, everything inside ./src would be automatically included in the bundle. This is not happening. I have just a single view to test out webpack, but the bundle stays very empty, no matter what.

Looking at debug traces I can see that the plugin is running. I've looked at the source code to try to understand why it did not include my files, but I honestly couldn't figure out where it was supposed to add them... How is that supposed to work? Is there something special I should be doing in addition to running aurelia-webpack-plugin to see my files in the bundle?

My templates are .html and view models .ts if that makes a difference (I have webpack properly set up with TS loader).

EisenbergEffect commented 7 years ago

Webpack has been having a lot of breaking changes. We're working on some major updates ourselves at the moment. Perhaps @niieani can comment on this.

jods4 commented 7 years ago

@niieani any status please? I would like to know what the current status is, if there are any short-term plans and possibly help make it work if it doesn't.

jods4 commented 7 years ago

OK I found this: aurelia/skeleton-navigation#714 Since this plugin is going to disappear I'm closing this ticket and I'll experiment with the new way. At first glance I shall say that I like the approach a lot more.

niieani commented 7 years ago

Sorry about not replying here, I only now got to this issue on my backlog.