npm install hugo-webpack-boilerplate
We all love Hugo, but it is cumbersome to use anything beyond simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What about LESS/SASS, ES6, minification, tree-shaking, or asset revving? Sure, you can roll your own, but these are all things Webpack was designed for.
Given Webpack typically takes a JavaScript file as entry point, but Hugo generates mostly HTML, it is quite complicated to come up with a useful workflow. This repository is an attempt to bind Hugo and Webpack together, giving Webpack full power over the files generated by Hugo. You can continue to use Hugo as you normally would, but enjoy the additional benefits of Webpack.
In your webpack.config.js, use:
// Exports.
module.exports = require('hugo-webpack-boilerplate');Alternatively, if you are not using Hugo’s default publishDir, use:
// Exports.
module.exports = require('hugo-webpack-boilerplate').fromConfig({
hugoPublishDir: 'hugo-publish-dir', // Defaults to public/
outDir: 'my-publish-dir' // Defaults to dist/
});Currently, only the Hugo publishDir and outDir are customizable. Over time, this module will be extended to allow further customizations.
This example considers a simple HTML file, a SASS stylesheet, image, and ES6 JavaScript file. The assets live under static/ (Hugo’s default), so for example, the image should be located at static/img/example.jpg. Note the usage of ~ (tilde), which will make sure Webpack can find the assets. Also, this module relies on interpolation by the html-loader, so make sure to import assets using require, as shown below.
When running webpack -p, Webpack will take all these assets, optimize-minimize them, and put them in the dist/ folder. Alternatively, you can run webpack -w to start the local development server.
layouts/index.html
<!doctype html>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~scss/style.scss" />
<title>This is an example</title>
<img src="${require(`~img/example.jpg`)}" />
<script src="${require(`~js/script.js`)}"></script>dist/index.html
<!doctype html>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.hash.css" />
<title>This is an example</title>
<img src="/img/example.hash.jpg" />
<script src="/js/script.hash.js"></script>- I’m getting UnCSS errors, like
Could not load script: "file:///~js/script.js"?
UnCSS attempts to load scripts from disk, which will not work if they are referenced by ~. The error is however non-blocking, and the UnCSS output is still useful. Just note that any selectors dynamically added will not be in the resulting stylesheet.
- The watching task causes Webpack to continuously reload?
There is a bug in watchpack causing the watcher to reload the same files over and over until the files settle. Apart from being an inconvenience, it does not affect your bundles.
- Can I use configure or add custom Webpack loaders or plugins?
Right now, no, there is no way to do this. Feel free to submit an issue or PR if you’d like to see any additions. It should be pretty simple to add this to the fromConfig function in src/index.js.
See the CHANGELOG for a list of changes.
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