Hapi Universal Webpack Plugin

This plugin integrates webpack-dev-middleware, webpack-hot-middleware and webpack-hot-server-middleware into hapi in order to provide hot-reloading of universal apps (i.e. apps that run on the client and the server).

Prerequisites

The following two packages are a peer dependency for this plugin.

• Hapi (tested on >= 17.0)
• webpack (tested on >= 4.0)

Installation

$ npm i -D hapi-universal-webpack-plugin

Usage

The following steps are required for you to implement the plugin and make it work.

Hapi

Before you start the server, you want to register the plugin. Provided you have webpack configurations for client and server, the following snippet will get you up and running.

const HapiUniversalWebpackPlugin = require('hapi-universal-webpack-plugin');
const clientConfig = require('path/to/webpack/config');
const serverConfig = require('path/to/webpack/config');
 
server.register({
    plugin: HapiUniversalWebpackPlugin,
    options: {
        clientConfig,
        serverConfig,
    },
});

Options

The options object from the example above accepts the following values:

Key	Type	Default	Required	Description
clientConfig	Object	undefined	yes	webpack configuration for processing the client-side code.
serverConfig	Object	undefined	no	webpack configuration for processing the server-side code. Without this, the plugin will run in client-only mode, which is fine if you do not need server-side rendering.
devMiddlewareOptions	Object	{}	no	Options that get passed down to webpack-dev-middleware. See their documentation for further information.
hotMiddlewareOptions	Object	{}	no	Options that get passed down to webpack-hot-middleware. See their documentation for further information.
hotServerMiddlewareOptions	Object	{}	no	Options that get passed down to webpack-hot-server-middleware. See their documentation for further information.

Webpack

A more detailed documentation on how to setup your webpack configurations is coming very soon. In the meantime, just refer to the examples/ directory of this repository, to see the plugin in action using the example of a universally rendered VueJS application.

Acknowledgement

hapi-webpack-plugin is a great solution if you do not need the server-side rendering part this plugin provides. It also served as great inspiration for this implementation.

webpack-hot-server-middleware is the package that provides us with webpack-integration for server-side bundling.

License

MIT