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Universal Development Kit

Webpack extension which improves universal application development.

Features

Starts universal application development fastly (from scratch/without boilerplate)
Designed on webpack's standard API v3 and v4
Enhances compilers dependencies: sequential compilation according to dependency graph
Support webpack-cli and webpack-commandnew
Dev container to increase developer productivity: don't write specific code for development purposes anymore
Compatible with Typescript and Universal Angular Applicationnew

Install

npm install --save-dev udk webpack

The Gist

// webpack.config.js

const mode = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? 'production' : 'development';

const client = {
  name: 'client',
  entry: './src/client.js',
  output: {
    path: __dirname + '/dist',
    filename: 'client.js'
  }
};

const server = {
  name: 'server',
  dependencies: [ client.name ], // server depends on client
  entry: './src/server.js',
  output: {
    path: __dirname + '/dist',
    filename: 'server.js'
  }
};

module.exports = [ client, server ]; // webpack multi config

// src/client.js

import './shared';

console.log('Hello, client');

// src/server.js

import './shared';

console.log('Hello, server');

// src/shared.js

console.log('Hello, shared');

DEBUG=udk:* npx udk --config webpack.config.js --watch

Now, try to update each file and check the output:

update client.js to check that server compiler will be invalidate when client compiler done ;
update server.js to check that sever compiler will be the only one compiler invalided ;
update shared.js to check that server compiler will wait client compiler done before compile too ;
update shared.js with a syntax error to check that server won't compile because client compiler has error ;
update shared.js to fix syntax error and check client and server compilers will run in serie.

Run webpack --config webpack.config.js --watch and try the same updates to check the difference between webpack and udk multi compiler behavior.

Under the hood, udk extends MultiCompiler only to ensure some behaviors: