webpack-fix-style-only-entries

This is a small plugin developed to solve the problem of having a style only entry (css/sass/less/stylus) generating an extra js file.

:warning: The current package version is not compatible with webpack 5. There is a fork here that is compatible: https://github.com/webdiscus/webpack-remove-empty-scripts

You can find more info by reading the following issues:

• https://github.com/webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin/issues/518
• https://github.com/webpack-contrib/mini-css-extract-plugin/issues/151

View on: Github - npm

How it works

It just find js files from chunks of css only entries and remove the js file from the compilation.

How to use

install using your package manager of choice: - npm:

npm install -D webpack-fix-style-only-entries

yarn add -D webpack-fix-style-only-entries

Require and add to webpack.config plugins.

Warning: this plugin does not load styles or split your bundles, it just fix chunks of css only entries by removing the (almost) empty js file.

// ... other plugins
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");
const FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin = require("webpack-fix-style-only-entries");

module.exports = {
    entry: {
        "main" : "./app/main.js"
        "styles": ["./common/styles.css", "./app/styles.css"]
    },
    module: {
            {
                test: /.css$/,
                use: [
                    MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
                    'css-loader',
                ]
            },
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin(),
        new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
            filename: "[name].[chunkhash:8].css",
        }),
    ],
};

Options

| Name | Type | Default | Description | |------------|--------------- |----------------------------------------|-------------| | extensions | Array[string] | ["less", "scss", "css", "styl","sass"] | file extensions for styles | | silent | boolean | false | supress logs to console | | ignore | string or RegExp | undefined | match resource to be ignored |

Example config:

// to identify only 'foo' and 'bar' extensions as styles
new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin({ extensions:['foo', 'bar'] }),

Recipes

I use a javascript entry to styles:

Give an especial extension to your file (

.css.js

new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin({ extensions:['css.js'] })

I use webpack-hot-middleware:

Configure this plugin as

new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin({ ignore: 'webpack-hot-middleware' })