Switching from Gulp to webpack could be traumatic. For most developers is just another obscure Javascript tool. Fear not, I’ll guide you through the process. This is a tutorial that gets you covered, code included!
Discover how to install webpack, run a build, and edit the config file. Find out how to use loaders to run tasks and process files such as CSS, Sass, and inline images.
(Updated to ) One could argue that Gulp is a task runner while webpack is not. The nice thing is: webpack can do the same things as Gulp does.
But with less code and a declarative configuration. Disclaimer: this is not a comparison between Gulp and webpack. Use whatever module bundler/task runner you prefer. I’m not endorsing anything. Hi, I just came across this article as I’m making the same journey from Gulp to Webpack, this article helped me a lot to put the pieces together, I have some question though 1- In Gulp I use to inject the CSS without reloading the page, how to do the same in Webpack? As I noticed the page has to refresh on each SCSS save.
2- How to achieve an HTML file includes for templating? For example, in Gulp I was using “gulp-file-include” to include HTML pages inside others. 3- Is there an alternative to “gulp-sourcemaps”, “gulp-if”, and “gulp-notify”? And thanks for the great article ?.
I’m glad my webpack tutorial helped! I’m sure webpack can achieve the same behaviour of gulp-sourcemaps and gulp-if.
I’ve never used gulp-notify though. As for templating I was looking for something too, without luck. One should be aware that webpack is a module bundler before switching from Gulp to webpack. That is, webpack might not be the right tool for the job. Especially if you need templating support. Anyway, webpack does not exclude Gulp.
They work nicely together. CSS: you can just generate your HTML page with npm run build and have the CSS injected. For instant feedback go with webpack dev server. As I am mainly a WordPress theme developer, I usually had the following workflow: I generated a static version of the website for cross CMS development in which I packed everything with Gulp, usually using yeoman generators. Everything was fine until Bootstrap 4 has come and is not on bower anymore. I started to look around. Even if I really don’t like how the JS ecosystem has grown up, I have to give up and try webpack.
The JS world has become overwhelming most of the time: for very simple things you have to dive deeply in new things and the learning curve goes up. This is why I try to avoid it when I can, because not every project should be built nor need fancy things like React or Angular. Anyway, thanks for the article. It connects the dots. This website won't.
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