I have a .net core app with angular and all was working. I haven't touch the js end for 4 weeks while I worked on the .net. This also involved updating some npm packages etc.
Now I find that the main.js is not getting changed and reason being is that the ts-js link seems to have disappeared. e.g Changes to a ts file (or even creating a new one) does not generate a corresponding js file like it should.
Webpack cmd runs ok. Build in VS 2017 runs ok.
My tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"moduleResolution": "node",
"target": "es5",
"sourceMap": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"skipDefaultLibCheck": true,
"lib": [ "es6", "dom" ],
"types": [ "node" ]
},
"exclude": [ "bin", "node_modules" ],
"atom": { "rewriteTsconfig": false }
}
My webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const merge = require('webpack-merge');
const CheckerPlugin = require('awesome-typescript-loader').CheckerPlugin;
module.exports = (env) => {
// Configuration in common to both client-side and server-side bundles
const isDevBuild = !(env && env.prod);
const sharedConfig = {
stats: { modules: false },
context: __dirname,
resolve: { extensions: [ '.js', '.ts' ] },
output: {
filename: '[name].js',
publicPath: '/dist/' // Webpack dev middleware, if enabled, handles requests for this URL prefix
},
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.ts$/, include: /ClientApp/, use: ['awesome-typescript-loader?silent=true', 'angular2-template-loader'] },
{ test: /\.html$/, use: 'html-loader?minimize=false' },
{ test: /\.css$/, use: [ 'to-string-loader', isDevBuild ? 'css-loader' : 'css-loader?minimize' ] },
{ test: /\.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg)$/, use: 'url-loader?limit=25000' }
]
},
plugins: [
new CheckerPlugin(),
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: 'jquery', jQuery: 'jquery' }),
]
};
// Configuration for client-side bundle suitable for running in browsers
const clientBundleOutputDir = './wwwroot/dist';
const clientBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
entry: { 'main-client': './ClientApp/boot-client.ts' },
output: { path: path.join(__dirname, clientBundleOutputDir) },
plugins: [
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: __dirname,
manifest: require('./wwwroot/dist/vendor-manifest.json')
})
].concat(isDevBuild ? [
// Plugins that apply in development builds only
new webpack.SourceMapDevToolPlugin({
filename: '[file].map', // Remove this line if you prefer inline source maps
moduleFilenameTemplate: path.relative(clientBundleOutputDir, '[resourcePath]') // Point sourcemap entries to the original file locations on disk
})
] : [
// Plugins that apply in production builds only
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()
])
});
// Configuration for server-side (prerendering) bundle suitable for running in Node
const serverBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
resolve: { mainFields: ['main'] },
entry: { 'main-server': './ClientApp/boot-server.ts' },
plugins: [
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: __dirname,
manifest: require('./ClientApp/dist/vendor-manifest.json'),
sourceType: 'commonjs2',
name: './vendor'
})
],
output: {
libraryTarget: 'commonjs',
path: path.join(__dirname, './ClientApp/dist')
},
target: 'node',
devtool: 'inline-source-map'
});
return [clientBundleConfig, serverBundleConfig];
};
My webpack.config.vendor.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const merge = require('webpack-merge');
module.exports = (env) => {
const extractCSS = new ExtractTextPlugin('vendor.css');
const isDevBuild = !(env && env.prod);
const sharedConfig = {
stats: { modules: false },
resolve: { extensions: [ '.js' ] },
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)(\?|$)/, use: 'url-loader?limit=100000' }
]
},
entry: {
vendor: [
'@angular/animations',
'@angular/common',
'@angular/compiler',
'@angular/core',
'@angular/forms',
'@angular/http',
'@angular/platform-browser',
'@angular/platform-browser-dynamic',
'@angular/router',
'bootstrap',
'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css',
'es6-shim',
'es6-promise',
'event-source-polyfill',
'jquery',
'zone.js',
]
},
output: {
publicPath: '/dist/',
filename: '[name].js',
library: '[name]_[hash]'
},
plugins: [
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ $: 'jquery', jQuery: 'jquery' }), // Maps these identifiers to the jQuery package (because Bootstrap expects it to be a global variable)
new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(/\@angular\b.*\b(bundles|linker)/, path.join(__dirname, './ClientApp')), // Workaround for https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/11580
new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(/angular(\\|\/)core(\\|\/)@angular/, path.join(__dirname, './ClientApp')), // Workaround for https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/14898
new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^vertx$/) // Workaround for https://github.com/stefanpenner/es6-promise/issues/100
]
};
const clientBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
output: { path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist') },
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.css(\?|$)/, use: extractCSS.extract({ use: isDevBuild ? 'css-loader' : 'css-loader?minimize' }) },
{ test: require.resolve('jquery'), loader: 'expose-loader?jQuery!expose-loader?$' }
]
},
plugins: [
extractCSS,
new webpack.DllPlugin({
path: path.join(__dirname, 'wwwroot', 'dist', '[name]-manifest.json'),
name: '[name]_[hash]'
})
].concat(isDevBuild ? [] : [
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()
])
});
const serverBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
target: 'node',
resolve: { mainFields: ['main'] },
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'ClientApp', 'dist'),
libraryTarget: 'commonjs2',
},
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.css(\?|$)/, use: ['to-string-loader', isDevBuild ? 'css-loader' : 'css-loader?minimize'] }
//Gary Aadded
,{ test: require.resolve('jquery'), loader: 'expose-loader?jQuery!expose-loader?$' }
]
},
entry: { vendor: ['aspnet-prerendering'] },
plugins: [
new webpack.DllPlugin({
path: path.join(__dirname, 'ClientApp', 'dist', '[name]-manifest.json'),
name: '[name]_[hash]'
})
]
});
return [clientBundleConfig, serverBundleConfig];
}
No one seems to actually know how this stuff works as there is usually 100 theories as to the problem but rarely a solution but here's hoping.