modern-web-dev-utils

Utility functions for create-modern-web-dev

• getPageNamesIn(directory) - Get all HTML file names in a given directory

  getPageNamesIn('./pages'); // [('index', 'with-script', 'without-script')];

• getScriptFoldersIn(directory) - Get all script folders (should have main.js file inside) in a given directory

  getScriptFoldersIn('./scripts'); //['index', 'with-scrpit'];

• createPageTemplates(pageNames, scriptFolders) - Create page templates for each pages with or without script

  createPageTemplates(
    getPageNamesIn('./pages'),
    getScriptFoldersIn('./scripts')
  );
  
  // if the page has corresponding script (with chunk)
  {
    name: 'with-chunk.html',
    chunk: 'with-chunk',
  }
  
  // if the page has no corresponding script (without chunk)
  {
    name: 'without-chunk.html',
  }

• htmlWebpackPluginTemplates(pageTemplates) - Generate HTML files (with HtmlWebpackPlugin) for each page template

  htmlWebpackPluginTemplates(
    createPageTemplates(
      getPageNamesIn('./pages'),
      getScriptFoldersIn('./scripts'),
    ),
  );
  
  // Array of HtmlWebpackPlugin instance
  [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'with-chunk.html',
      template: `./pages/with-chunk.html`,
      chunks: ['with-chunk'],
    }),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'without-chunk.html',
      template: `./pages/without-chunk.html`,
    }),
  ];

• getPageTemplatesWithChunk(pagesDirectory, scriptDirectory) - Return all page templates with chunks

  getPageTemplatesWithChunk('./pages', './scripts');
  
  // Array of page templates with chunk
  [
    {
      name: 'index.html',
      chunk: 'index',
    },
    {
      name: 'with-chunk.html',
      chunk: 'with-chunk',
    },
  ];

• getPageTemplatesChunkEntryPoints(pageTemplatesWithChunk, scriptDirectory) - Return the webpack entry points for page templates with chunk

  getPageTemplatesChunkEntryPoints(
    getPageTemplatesWithChunk('./pages', './scripts'),
    './scripts',
  );
  
  // Entry points to pages with chunks
  {
    index: './scripts/index/main.js',
    'with-chunk': './scripts/with-chunk/main.js',
  };

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How I worked on this project

My goal was to create a utility function for (multi-pages web app) webpack configuration

• I used TypeScript to create robust and easy to use functions: See functions

• I used Jest to ensure all functions are working as expected: Screenshot of test result