webpack-browser-plugin

Webpack Browser Plugin

This plugin enables your webpack builds to automatically launch it's application on a browser.

Will automatically work for webpack-dev-server. For standard webpack usage -- browser sync is used to launch the application on a specific port.

Installation

npm install --save-dev webpack-browser-plugin

Setup

In webpack.config.js:

const WebpackBrowserPlugin = require('webpack-browser-plugin');

module.exports = {
  ...
  ...
  plugins: [
    new WebpackBrowserPlugin()
  ],
  ...
}

Example

You can specify a port and a browser to be used.

const WebpackBrowserPlugin = require('webpack-browser-plugin');

var plugins = [];

plugins.push(new WebpackBrowserPlugin({
  browser: 'Firefox',
  port: 9000,
  url: 'http://192.168.3.1'
}));

var config = {
  entry: {
    app: __dirname + 'src/pantera.js'
  },
  output: {
    path: __dirname + 'dest'
  },
  devServer: {
    contentBase: __dirname + 'dest'
  },
  plugins: plugins,
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {test: /\.js$/, loaders: 'babel'},
      {test: /\.scss$/, loader: 'style!css!scss?'},
      {test: /\.html$/, loader: 'html-loader'}
    ]
  }
}

module.exports = config;

Note: For webpack, browser-sync is being used. For webpack-dev-server a child process spawns the browser popup. Also ports get overwritten if specified in webpack.config.js for webpack-dev-server.

Other Webpack Plugins

Also checkout our other webpack plugin WebpackShellPlugin.

API

• port: Port to run on. Default: 8080
• browser: Browser to use. Note: webpack-dev-server will open your default browser. Default: default <string|array>
• url: Url to use. Default: http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost
• publicPath: Public url path. Note: this gets overridden by output.publicPath in your webpack.config. Default: null

Webpack-dev-server only

• openOptions: For webpack-dev-server, we use node module opn. WARNING: This will override this plugin and webpack's configurations. Default: null

Webpack only

• bsOptions: Options to pass to the browser-sync module. WARNING: This will override this plugin and webpack's configurations. Default: null

Contributing

Create a new branch and write your changes in the src/ folder.

Make sure you run your tests with both webpack and webpack-dev-server. Or npm run test and npm run test:dev.

Once complete run npm run build and create your pull request.