Webpack Runner

This provides a simple Node.js script to run webpacked files as Node scripts. This is particularly useful when paired with test runners like tape.

Basic Usage

# Run a single file as a script after passing it through webpack

wprun my-script.js

# Run a glob pattern of files after passing it through webpack

wprun **/*.test.js

Options

• -c pass a webpack config files, by default it assumes webpack.config.js is available
• -w enable webpack's watch mode and re-runs the scripts when any files change
• -r require files or modules before the script(s) are run. This should be a comma separated list if more than one is required and will not be processed by webpack
• -s enable sourcemap support (enabled by default pass 'false' to this if you want to disable it)
• -e specific what to run, default is node. Use -e mocha to run mocha tests.

Example Use Case

The problem this was specifically created to solve was running tests on Vue single-file components with tape. Generally vue-loader is the best way to process .vue files which requires Webpack.

Despite being built for testing wprun is completely agnostic (aside from webpack) and simply passes the files you supply first through Webpack and then through the Node executable in a child process created with execa.