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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:

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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: 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 for example) and configure new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin({ extensions:['css.js'] }). See: https://github.com/fqborges/webpack-fix-style-only-entries/issues/8.

I use webpack-hot-middleware:

Configure this plugin as new FixStyleOnlyEntriesPlugin({ ignore: 'webpack-hot-middleware' }). See: https://github.com/fqborges/webpack-fix-style-only-entries/issues/12 and https://github.com/fqborges/webpack-fix-style-only-entries/blob/master/test/cases/css-entry-with-ignored-hmr/webpack.config.js.