javascript - Get Webpack not to bundle files

Question

So right now I'm working with a prototype where we're using a combination between webpack (for building .tsx files and copying .html files) and webpack-dev-server for development serving. As you can assume we are also using React and ReactDOM as a couple of library dependencies as well. Our current build output is the following structure:

dist
    -favicon.ico
    -index.html
    -main.js
    -main.js.map // for source-mapping between tsx / js files

This places ALL of the modules (including library dependencies into on big bundled file). I want the end result to look like this:

dist
    -favicon.ico
    -index.html
    -appName.js
    -appName.min.js
    -react.js
    -react.min.js
    -reactDOM.js
    -reactDOM.min.js

I have references to each of the libraries in index.html and in import statements in the .tsx files. So my question is this... How do I go from webpack producing this gigantic bundled .js file to individual .js files (libraries included, without having to specify each individually)? **Bonus: I know how to do prod/dev environment flags, so how do I just minify those individual files (again without bundling them)?

current webpack.config:

var webpack = require("webpack"); // Assigning node package of webpack dependency to var for later utilization
var path = require("path"); // // Assigning node package of path dependency to var for later utilization

module.exports = {
    entry:  [
                "./wwwroot/app/appName.tsx", // Starting point of linking/compiling Typescript and dependencies, will need to add separate entry points in case of not deving SPA
                "./wwwroot/index.html", // Starting point of including HTML and dependencies, will need to add separate entry points in case of not deving SPA
                "./wwwroot/favicon.ico" // Input location for favicon
            ],
    output: {
        path: "./dist/", // Where we want to host files in local file directory structure
        publicPath: "/", // Where we want files to appear in hosting (eventual resolution to: https://localhost:4444/)
        filename: "appName.js" // What we want end compiled app JS file to be called
    },

    // Enable sourcemaps for debugging webpack's output.
    devtool: "source-map",

    devServer: {
        contentBase: './dist', // Copy and serve files from dist folder
        port: 4444, // Host on localhost port 4444
        // https: true, // Enable self-signed https/ssl cert debugging
        colors: true // Enable color-coding for debugging (VS Code does not currently emit colors, so none will be present there)
    },

    resolve: {
        // Add '.ts' and '.tsx' as resolvable extensions.
        extensions: [
            "",
            ".ico",
            ".js",
            ".ts",
            ".tsx",
            ".web.js",
            ".webpack.js"
        ]
    },

    module: {
        loaders: [
            // This loader copies the index.html file & favicon.ico to the output directory.
            {
                test: /.(html|ico)$/,
                loader: 'file?name=[name].[ext]'
            },
            // All files with a '.ts' or '.tsx' extension will be handled by 'ts-loader'.
            {
                test: /.tsx?$/,
                loaders: ["ts-loader"]
            }
        ],

        preLoaders: [
            // All output '.js' files will have any sourcemaps re-processed by 'source-map-loader'.
            {
                test: /.js$/,
                loader: "source-map-loader"
            }
        ]
    },

    // When importing a module whose path matches one of the following, just
    // assume a corresponding global variable exists and use that instead.
    // This is important because it allows us to avoid bundling all of our
    // dependencies, which allows browsers to cache those libraries between builds.
    // externals: {
    //     "react": "React",
    //     "react-dom": "ReactDOM",
    //     "redux": "Redux"
    // }
};

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40096470/get-webpack-not-to-bundle-files

Answer 1

Change the output setting to be name driven e.g.

    entry: {
        dash: 'app/dash.ts',
        home: 'app/home.ts',
    },
    output: {
        path: './public',
        filename: 'build/[name].js',
        sourceMapFilename: 'build/[name].js.map'
    },