mini-html-webpack-plugin

A miniature version of html-webpack-plugin with only necessary features


Keywords
webpack, html, template
License
MIT
Install
npm install mini-html-webpack-plugin@3.0.2

Documentation

mini-html-webpack-plugin: a miniature version of html-webpack-plugin with only necessary features

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The plugin writes CSS and JS asset paths for you automatically. Works with webpack 3 and 4.

It does not work with html-webpack-plugin plugins!

Usage

npm install mini-html-webpack-plugin
const MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin = require('mini-html-webpack-plugin');

const config = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin({
      // Optional, defaults to `index.html`
      filename: 'demo.html',
      // Optional
      publicPath: 'demo/',
      context: {
        title: 'Webpack demo',
        // Optional, defaults to `{ lang: 'en' }`
        htmlAttributes: { lang: 'en' },
        // Optional, any additional HTML attached within <head>
        head: '',
        // Optional, any additional HTML attached within <body>
        body: '',
        // Optional
        cssAttributes: { rel: 'preload' },
        // Optional
        jsAttributes: { defer: 'defer' }
      },
      // Optional, use this for choosing chunks to include to your page.
      // See the expanded example below.
      chunks: ['app']
    })
  ]
};

Multiple pages

It's possible to use MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin to develop sites with multiple pages. It can be combined with webpack's bundle splitting so you can share common code across different pages.

To achieve this, you'll have to define entry against each the code for each page and define MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin to match them. In practice you might want to abstract this pairing but to give you the full idea, consider the example below.

const MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin = require('mini-html-webpack-plugin');

const config = {
  entry: {
    app: './app.js',
    another: './another.js'
  },
  plugins: [
    new MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'index.html',
      chunks: ['app'],
    }),
    new MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'another.html',
      chunks: ['another'],
    },
  ],
};

HTML minification

const minify = require('html-minifier').minify;
const MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin = require('mini-html-webpack-plugin');

const config = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin({
      context: {
        title: 'Minification demo'
      },
      template: context =>
        minify(MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin.defaultTemplate(context))
    })
  ]
};

Custom templates

Use @vxna/mini-html-webpack-template to add an app container div, a favicon, meta tags, inline JavaScript or CSS.

Or define a template function to generate your own code:

const MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin = require('mini-html-webpack-plugin');
const {
  generateAttributes,
  generateCSSReferences,
  generateJSReferences
} = MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin;

const config = {
  plugins: [
    new MiniHtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'demo.html',
      publicPath: 'demo/',
      // `context` is available in `template` below
      context: {
        title: 'Webpack demo',
        htmlAttributes: { lang: 'en' },
        cssAttributes: { rel: 'preload' },
        jsAttributes: { defer: 'defer' }
      },
      template: ({
        css,
        js,
        publicPath,
        title,
        htmlAttributes,
        cssAttributes,
        jsAttributes
      }) => {
        const htmlAttrs = generateAttributes(htmlAttributes);

        const cssTags = generateCSSReferences({
          files: css,
          attributes: cssAttributes,
          publicPath
        });

        const jsTags = generateJSReferences({
          files: js,
          attributes: jsAttributes,
          publicPath
        });

        return `<!DOCTYPE html>
        <html${htmlAttrs}>
          <head>
            <meta charset="UTF-8">
            <title>${title}</title>
            ${cssTags}
          </head>
          <body>
            ${jsTags}
          </body>
        </html>`;
      }
    })
  ]
};

License

MIT.