Webpack+react+redux+babel config in 10 minutes

Gorick Blocked Unblock Follow Following Aug 15, 2017

First thing, let me say this post won’t teach you webpack. If you don’t know how to config webpack please read the docs or other articles. Here i’ll put a quick copy-paste guide to create a new project using webpack. If you already understand webpack but loose a lot of time in configuration this is for you.

Pre-requisites:

Node

NPM WEBPACK-REACT-REDUX-BABEL STARTER PACK

Installations:

node modules

npm init -y

webpack

npm install --save-dev webpack

npm install --save lodash

webpack devserver

npm install webpack-dev-server --save-dev

react

npm install --save react react-dom

react router

npm install --save react-router

react router dom

npm install react-router-dom

babel

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-env

babel for ES2015

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-es2015

babel for jsx

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-react

redux

npm install --save redux

npm install --save react-redux

npm install --save-dev redux-devtools

Loaders for webpack

Babel loader

npm install --save-dev babel-loader babel-core babel-preset-env webpack

For css

npm install style-loader --save-dev

Flexbox-grid react

npm install --save react-flexbox-grid

styled components

npm install --save styled-components

For files

npm install --save-dev file-loader

HotModule replacement with css

npm install --save-dev style-loader css-loader

Plugins

npm install html-webpack-plugin --save-dev

npm install --save react-hot-loader@next

Then create some folders:

-src

--components

--assets

-dist

--build

Now create some files to configuration:

index.js index.html .gitignore(this one is not necessary but for recomendation set node modules here) webpack.config.js webpack.prod.js .babelrc container.js at src/components

PS: Outside those folders. At the project root.

Here the files of configuration:

Finally to create the build run this:

For dev build:

npm run build:dev

And for prod mode:

npm run build:dist

Last Thing

Add this at the body in index.html inside dist/build:

<div id="root"></div>

and now start the project:

npm start

Done!

Did you find something wrong? please comment what and where.

keep coding!