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Express|Webpack - The ultimate guide

The ultimate guide to scaffolding a website project using Webpack 4 and Expressjs, supporting Babel, SCSS and hot reloading for both client and server code.

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The protagonists of the book are Express and Webpack. The book contains 7 chapters that will guide you through the process of setting up an ExpressJS app and properly implement a Webpack 4 build-flow supporting hmr for both client and server.

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Mathieu Maes

Mathieu Maes is a front-end developer at Zimmo.be, located in Leuven (Belgium). With over 15 years of experience in web development, he's built countless of websites and applications. He could setup a good number of tools or frameworks in his sleep, which is why he's usually responsible for project scaffolding. That doesn't mean he gets actual work done in his sleep, nor he sleeps at work!

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Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Goals
  2. Sample project
  3. About the author

Chapter I - Scaffolding a new project

  1. Conclusion
  2. Further reading

Chapter II - Setup Webpack for JS build with babel

  1. Tip & Tricks
  2. Conclusion
  3. Further reading

Chapter III - Build SCSS using Webpack

  1. Conclusion

Chapter IV - Setting up webpack-dev-server

  1. Conclusion

Chapter V - Reload server upon changes (the smart way)

  1. Conclusion
  2. Further reading

Chapter VI - Refresh browser upon server reload

  1. Conclusion

Chapter VII - Extract CSS from webpack and manage assets

  1. Conclusion

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