Webpack 4

[insin]

It's time for the waiting for plugins and loaders dance again.

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Branch: https://github.com/insin/nwb/tree/webpack4

Broken or needs to be changed for Webpack 4:

• CopyPlugin
• Replace ExtractTextPlugin with mini-css-extract-plugin, which seems way simpler, and also adds extraction and loading of separate CSS bundles
• HtmlPlugin also seems to have issues with new code splitting implementation - the app module stopped being included when I enabled the default vendor splitting
• file-loader
• Figure out what to do with optimization.splitChunk and optimization.runtimeChunks with respect to vendor bundling and long-term caching

Deprecation warnings:

• case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin
• karma-webpack - we will also need to update log silencing config when it updates to webpack-dev-middleware >= 2

[ev-dev]

Webpack 4 = ~60-98% build time improvements over 3, needless to say looking forward to the update