tec: Upgrade to Webpack 4

client/.eslintrc.js

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ module.exports = {
   env: {
     es6: true
   },
+  globals: {
+    "require": "readonly",
+  },
   root: true,
   parser: 'babel-eslint',
   parserOptions: {

client/build/utils.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 'use strict'
 const path = require('path')
 const config = require('../config')
-const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin')
+const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin')
 const packageConfig = require('../package.json')
 
 exports.assetsPath = function (_path) {
@@ -25,13 +25,32 @@ exports.cssLoaders = function (options) {
   const postcssLoader = {
     loader: 'postcss-loader',
     options: {
-      sourceMap: options.sourceMap
+      sourceMap: options.sourceMap,
+      plugins: () => [
+        require('autoprefixer')({
+          browsers: ['last 2 versions'],
+        }),
+      ],
     }
   }
 
   // generate loader string to be used with extract text plugin
   function generateLoaders (loader, loaderOptions) {
-    const loaders = options.usePostCSS ? [cssLoader, postcssLoader] : [cssLoader]
+    const loaders = []
+
+    // Extract CSS when that option is specified
+    // (which is the case during production build)
+    if (options.extract) {
+      loaders.push(MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader)
+    } else {
+      loaders.push('vue-style-loader')
+    }
+
+    loaders.push(cssLoader)
+
+    if (options.usePostCSS) {
+      loaders.push(postcssLoader)
+    }
 
     if (loader) {
       loaders.push({
@@ -42,29 +61,16 @@ exports.cssLoaders = function (options) {
       })
     }
 
-    // Extract CSS when that option is specified
-    // (which is the case during production build)
-    if (options.extract) {
-      return ExtractTextPlugin.extract({
-        use: loaders,
-        fallback: 'vue-style-loader'
-      })
-    } else {
-      return ['vue-style-loader'].concat(loaders)
-    }
+    return loaders
   }
 
   // https://vue-loader.vuejs.org/en/configurations/extract-css.html
   return {
     css: generateLoaders(),
     postcss: generateLoaders(),
-    less: generateLoaders('less'),
-    sass: generateLoaders('sass', { indentedSyntax: true }),
     scss: generateLoaders('sass', {
       data: "@import 'src/styles/variables/index';",
     }),
-    stylus: generateLoaders('stylus'),
-    styl: generateLoaders('stylus')
   }
 }
 

client/build/vue-loader.conf.js

@@ -1,19 +1,9 @@
 'use strict'
-const utils = require('./utils')
 const config = require('../config')
-const isProduction = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
-const sourceMapEnabled = isProduction
-  ? config.build.productionSourceMap
-  : config.dev.cssSourceMap
 
 module.exports = {
-  loaders: utils.cssLoaders({
-    sourceMap: sourceMapEnabled,
-    extract: isProduction
-  }),
-  cssSourceMap: sourceMapEnabled,
   cacheBusting: config.dev.cacheBusting,
-  transformToRequire: {
+  transformAssetUrls: {
     video: ['src', 'poster'],
     source: 'src',
     img: 'src',

client/build/webpack.base.conf.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ const path = require('path')
 const utils = require('./utils')
 const config = require('../config')
 const vueLoaderConfig = require('./vue-loader.conf')
+const { VueLoaderPlugin } = require('vue-loader')
 
 function resolve (dir) {
   return path.join(__dirname, '..', dir)
@@ -31,6 +32,9 @@ module.exports = {
       ? config.build.assetsPublicPath
       : config.dev.assetsPublicPath
   },
+  plugins: [
+    new VueLoaderPlugin(),
+  ],
   resolve: {
     extensions: ['.js', '.vue', '.json'],
     alias: {
@@ -49,7 +53,10 @@ module.exports = {
       {
         test: /\.js$/,
         loader: 'babel-loader',
-        include: [resolve('src'), resolve('test'), resolve('node_modules/webpack-dev-server/client')]
+        include: [resolve('src'), resolve('test'), resolve('node_modules/webpack-dev-server/client')],
+        exclude: file => (
+          /node_modules/.test(file) && !/\.vue\.js/.test(file)
+        ),
       },
       {
         test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg)(\?.*)?$/,

client/build/webpack.dev.conf.js

@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@ const HOST = process.env.HOST
 const PORT = process.env.PORT && Number(process.env.PORT)
 
 const devWebpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
+  mode: 'development',
   module: {
-    rules: utils.styleLoaders({ sourceMap: config.dev.cssSourceMap, usePostCSS: true })
+    rules: utils.styleLoaders({
+      sourceMap: config.dev.cssSourceMap,
+      usePostCSS: true,
+    })
   },
   // cheap-module-eval-source-map is faster for development
   devtool: config.dev.devtool,
@@ -49,8 +53,6 @@ const devWebpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
       'process.env': require('../config/dev.env')
     }),
     new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
-    new webpack.NamedModulesPlugin(), // HMR shows correct file names in console on update.
-    new webpack.NoEmitOnErrorsPlugin(),
     // https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin
     new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
       filename: 'index.html',
@@ -65,7 +67,10 @@ const devWebpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
         ignore: ['.*']
       }
     ])
-  ]
+  ],
+  optimization: {
+    noEmitOnErrors: true,
+  },
 })
 
 module.exports = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {

client/build/webpack.prod.conf.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const merge = require('webpack-merge')
 const baseWebpackConfig = require('./webpack.base.conf')
 const CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin')
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
-const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin')
+const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin')
 const OptimizeCSSPlugin = require('optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin')
 const UglifyJsPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin')
 
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ const env = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'testing'
   : require('../config/prod.env')
 
 const webpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
+  mode: 'production',
   module: {
     rules: utils.styleLoaders({
       sourceMap: config.build.productionSourceMap,
@@ -27,30 +28,15 @@ const webpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
   output: {
     path: config.build.assetsRoot,
     filename: utils.assetsPath('js/[name].[chunkhash].js'),
-    chunkFilename: utils.assetsPath('js/[id].[chunkhash].js')
   },
   plugins: [
     // http://vuejs.github.io/vue-loader/en/workflow/production.html
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({
       'process.env': env
     }),
-    new UglifyJsPlugin({
-      uglifyOptions: {
-        compress: {
-          warnings: false
-        }
-      },
-      sourceMap: config.build.productionSourceMap,
-      parallel: true
-    }),
     // extract css into its own file
-    new ExtractTextPlugin({
-      filename: utils.assetsPath('css/[name].[contenthash].css'),
-      // Setting the following option to `false` will not extract CSS from codesplit chunks.
-      // Their CSS will instead be inserted dynamically with style-loader when the codesplit chunk has been loaded by webpack.
-      // It's currently set to `true` because we are seeing that sourcemaps are included in the codesplit bundle as well when it's `false`,
-      // increasing file size: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack/issues/1110
-      allChunks: true,
+    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
+      filename: utils.assetsPath('css/[name].[chunkhash].css'),
     }),
     // Compress extracted CSS. We are using this plugin so that possible
     // duplicated CSS from different components can be deduped.
@@ -75,42 +61,14 @@ const webpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
         // more options:
         // https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier#options-quick-reference
       },
-      // necessary to consistently work with multiple chunks via CommonsChunkPlugin
+      // necessary to consistently work with multiple chunks
       chunksSortMode: 'dependency'
     }),
+
+    new webpack.NamedChunksPlugin(),
+
     // keep module.id stable when vendor modules does not change
     new webpack.HashedModuleIdsPlugin(),
-    // enable scope hoisting
-    new webpack.optimize.ModuleConcatenationPlugin(),
-    // split vendor js into its own file
-    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
-      name: 'vendor',
-      minChunks (module) {
-        // any required modules inside node_modules are extracted to vendor
-        return (
-          module.resource &&
-          /\.js$/.test(module.resource) &&
-          module.resource.indexOf(
-            path.join(__dirname, '../node_modules')
-          ) === 0
-        )
-      }
-    }),
-    // extract webpack runtime and module manifest to its own file in order to
-    // prevent vendor hash from being updated whenever app bundle is updated
-    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
-      name: 'manifest',
-      minChunks: Infinity
-    }),
-    // This instance extracts shared chunks from code splitted chunks and bundles them
-    // in a separate chunk, similar to the vendor chunk
-    // see: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/commons-chunk-plugin/#extra-async-commons-chunk
-    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
-      name: 'app',
-      async: 'vendor-async',
-      children: true,
-      minChunks: 3
-    }),
 
     // copy custom static assets
     new CopyWebpackPlugin([
@@ -120,7 +78,31 @@ const webpackConfig = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
         ignore: ['.*']
       }
     ])
-  ]
+  ],
+  optimization: {
+    splitChunks: {
+      chunks: 'all',
+      cacheGroups: {
+        vendor: {
+          name: 'vendor',
+          test: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/,
+          enforce: true,
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    runtimeChunk: 'single',
+    minimizer: [
+      new UglifyJsPlugin({
+        uglifyOptions: {
+          compress: {
+            warnings: false
+          }
+        },
+        sourceMap: config.build.productionSourceMap,
+        parallel: true
+      }),
+    ],
+  },
 })
 
 if (config.build.productionGzip) {