Web compile service

Express route that exposes an end-point for serving source files to the browser in development. Files are compiled by webpack, but they don't need to be statically declared in webpack.config.js. All source files can be served on demand.

Installation

npm i webcs

Usage

import path from "path";
import express from "express";
import expressWs from "express-ws";
import { makeCsRoute } from "webcs";

// make the middleware

const { webcsRoute } = makeCsRoute({
  compileServiceRoot: __dirname,
  webRootUrl: "http://localhost:3000",
  webcsMountPath: "webcs",
  staticWebFolder: "probably just for javi",
});

// make the express app

const app = express();

expressWs(app);

app.use("webcs", webcsRoute());

app.listen(3000);

// now a file `hello.ts` is ready for the browser at:
// http://localhost:3000/webcs/hello.ts

Related work

• webpack-dev-middleware

License

MIT