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Packs ECMAScript/CommonJs/AMD modules for the browser. Allows you to split your codebase into multiple bundles, which can be loaded on demand. Supports loaders to preprocess files, i.e. json, jsx, es7, css, less, ... and your custom stuff.

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Webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

Table of Contents

Install

Install with npm:

npm install --save-dev webpack

Install with yarn:

yarn add webpack --dev

Introduction

Webpack is a bundler for modules. The main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

TL;DR

  • Bundles ES Modules, CommonJS, and AMD modules (even combined).
  • Can create a single bundle or multiple chunks that are asynchronously loaded at runtime (to reduce initial loading time).
  • Dependencies are resolved during compilation, reducing the runtime size.
  • Loaders can preprocess files while compiling, e.g. TypeScript to JavaScript, Handlebars strings to compiled functions, images to Base64, etc.
  • Highly modular plugin system to do whatever else your application requires.

Learn about webpack through videos!

Get Started

Check out webpack's quick Get Started guide and the other guides.

Browser Compatibility

Webpack supports all browsers that are ES5-compliant (IE8 and below are not supported). Webpack also needs Promise for import() and require.ensure(). If you want to support older browsers, you will need to load a polyfill before using these expressions.

Concepts

Plugins

Webpack has a rich plugin interface. Most of the features within webpack itself use this plugin interface. This makes webpack very flexible.

Name Status Install Size Description
mini-css-extract-plugin mini-css-npm mini-css-size Extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS.
compression-webpack-plugin compression-npm compression-size Prepares compressed versions of assets to serve them with Content-Encoding
html-bundler-webpack-plugin bundler-npm bundler-size Renders a template (EJS, Handlebars, Pug) with referenced source asset files into HTML.
html-webpack-plugin html-plugin-npm html-plugin-size Simplifies creation of HTML files (index.html) to serve your bundles
pug-plugin pug-plugin-npm pug-plugin-size Renders Pug files to HTML, extracts JS and CSS from sources specified directly in Pug.

Loaders

Webpack enables the use of loaders to preprocess files. This allows you to bundle any static resource way beyond JavaScript. You can easily write your own loaders using Node.js.

Loaders are activated by using loadername! prefixes in require() statements, or are automatically applied via regex from your webpack configuration.

Files

Name Status Install Size Description
val-loader val-npm val-size Executes code as module and considers exports as JS code

JSON

Name Status Install Size Description
cson-npm cson-size Loads and transpiles a CSON file

Transpiling

Name Status Install Size Description
babel-npm babel-size Loads ES2015+ code and transpiles to ES5 using Babel
type-npm type-size Loads TypeScript like JavaScript
coffee-npm coffee-size Loads CoffeeScript like JavaScript

Templating

Name Status Install Size Description
html-npm html-size Exports HTML as string, requires references to static resources
pug-npm pug-size Loads Pug templates and returns a function
pug3-npm pug3-size Compiles Pug to a function or HTML string, useful for use with Vue, React, Angular
md-npm md-size Compiles Markdown to HTML
posthtml-npm posthtml-size Loads and transforms a HTML file using PostHTML
hbs-npm hbs-size Compiles Handlebars to HTML

Styling

Name Status Install Size Description
<style> style-npm style-size Add exports of a module as style to DOM
css-npm css-size Loads CSS file with resolved imports and returns CSS code
less-npm less-size Loads and compiles a LESS file
sass-npm sass-size Loads and compiles a Sass/SCSS file
stylus-npm stylus-size Loads and compiles a Stylus file
postcss-npm postcss-size Loads and transforms a CSS/SSS file using PostCSS

Frameworks

Name Status Install Size Description
vue-npm vue-size Loads and compiles Vue Components
polymer-npm polymer-size Process HTML & CSS with preprocessor of choice and require() Web Components like first-class modules
angular-npm angular-size Loads and compiles Angular 2 Components
riot-npm riot-size Riot official webpack loader
svelte-npm svelte-size Official Svelte loader

Performance

Webpack uses async I/O and has multiple caching levels. This makes webpack fast and incredibly fast on incremental compilations.

Module Formats

Webpack supports ES2015+, CommonJS and AMD modules out of the box. It performs clever static analysis on the AST of your code. It even has an evaluation engine to evaluate simple expressions. This allows you to support most existing libraries out of the box.

Code Splitting

Webpack allows you to split your codebase into multiple chunks. Chunks are loaded asynchronously at runtime. This reduces the initial loading time.

Optimizations

Webpack can do many optimizations to reduce the output size of your JavaScript by deduplicating frequently used modules, minifying, and giving you full control of what is loaded initially and what is loaded at runtime through code splitting. It can also make your code chunks cache friendly by using hashes.

Contributing

We want contributing to webpack to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for anyone, and everyone. We have a vibrant ecosystem that spans beyond this single repo. We welcome you to check out any of the repositories in our organization or webpack-contrib organization which houses all of our loaders and plugins.

Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on webpack, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions including:

To get started have a look at our documentation on contributing.

Creating your own plugins and loaders

If you create a loader or plugin, we would <3 for you to open source it, and put it on npm. We follow the x-loader, x-webpack-plugin naming convention.

Support

We consider webpack to be a low-level tool used not only individually but also layered beneath other awesome tools. Because of its flexibility, webpack isn't always the easiest entry-level solution, however we do believe it is the most powerful. That said, we're always looking for ways to improve and simplify the tool without compromising functionality. If you have any ideas on ways to accomplish this, we're all ears!

If you're just getting started, take a look at our new docs and concepts page. This has a high level overview that is great for beginners!!

If you have discovered a 🐜 or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on GitHub.

Current project members

For information about the governance of the Node.js project, see GOVERNANCE.md.

TSC (Technical Steering Committee)

Core Collaborators

Sponsoring

Most of the core team members, webpack contributors and contributors in the ecosystem do this open source work in their free time. If you use webpack for a serious task, and you'd like us to invest more time on it, please donate. This project increases your income/productivity too. It makes development and applications faster and it reduces the required bandwidth.

This is how we use the donations:

  • Allow the core team to work on webpack
  • Thank contributors if they invested a large amount of time in contributing
  • Support projects in the ecosystem that are of great value for users
  • Support projects that are voted most (work in progress)
  • Infrastructure cost
  • Fees for money handling

Premium Partners

Other Backers and Sponsors

Before we started using OpenCollective, donations were made anonymously. Now that we have made the switch, we would like to acknowledge these sponsors (and the ones who continue to donate using OpenCollective). If we've missed someone, please send us a PR, and we'll add you to this list.

Gold Sponsors

Become a gold sponsor and get your logo on our README on GitHub with a link to your site.

Silver Sponsors

Become a silver sponsor and get your logo on our README on GitHub with a link to your site.

Bronze Sponsors

Become a bronze sponsor and get your logo on our README on GitHub with a link to your site.

Backers

Become a backer and get your image on our README on GitHub with a link to your site.

Special Thanks to

(In chronological order)

  • @google for Google Web Toolkit (GWT), which aims to compile Java to JavaScript. It features a similar Code Splitting as webpack.
  • @medikoo for modules-webmake, which is a similar project. webpack was born because of the desire for code splitting for modules such as Webmake. Interestingly, the Code Splitting issue is still open (thanks also to @Phoscur for the discussion).
  • @substack for browserify, which is a similar project and source for many ideas.
  • @jrburke for require.js, which is a similar project and source for many ideas.
  • @defunctzombie for the browser-field spec, which makes modules available for node.js, browserify and webpack.
  • @sokra for creating webpack.
  • Every early webpack user, which contributed to webpack by writing issues or PRs. You influenced the direction.
  • All past and current webpack maintainers and collaborators.
  • Everyone who has written a loader for webpack. You are the ecosystem...
  • Everyone not mentioned here but that has also influenced webpack.