This is a webpack plugin that simplifies creation of HTML files to serve your webpack bundles. This is especially useful for webpack bundles that include a hash in the filename which changes every compilation. You can either let the plugin generate an HTML file for you, supply your own template using lodash templates or use your own loader.javascript
Maintainer: Jan Nicklas @jantimoncss
Install the plugin with npm:html
The html-webpack-plugin provides hooks to extend it to your needs. There are already some really powerful plugins which can be integrated with zero configuration:java
async
, defer
or module
attributes to your<script>
elements, or even in-line them<link>
s to external stylesheets into <style>
elements containing internal CSSThe plugin will generate an HTML5 file for you that includes all your webpack bundles in the body using script
tags. Just add the plugin to your webpack config as follows:node
This will generate a file dist/index.html
containing the following:webpack
If you have multiple webpack entry points, they will all be included with script
tags in the generated HTML.git
If you have any CSS assets in webpack's output (for example, CSS extracted with theExtractTextPlugin) then these will be included with <link>
tags in the HTML head.github
You can pass a hash of configuration options to HtmlWebpackPlugin
. Allowed values are as follows:web
title
: The title to use for the generated HTML document.filename
: The file to write the HTML to. Defaults to index.html
. You can specify a subdirectory here too (eg: assets/admin.html
).template
: Webpack require path to the template. Please see the docs for details.inject
: true | 'head' | 'body' | false
Inject all assets into the given template
ortemplateContent
- When passing true
or 'body'
all javascript resources will be placed at the bottom of the body element. 'head'
will place the scripts in the head element.favicon
: Adds the given favicon path to the output html.minify
: {...} | false
Pass a html-minifier options object to minify the output.hash
: true | false
if true
then append a unique webpack compilation hash to all included scripts and CSS files. This is useful for cache busting.cache
: true | false
if true
(default) try to emit the file only if it was changed.showErrors
: true | false
if true
(default) errors details will be written into the HTML page.chunks
: Allows you to add only some chunks (e.g. only the unit-test chunk)chunksSortMode
: Allows to control how chunks should be sorted before they are included to the html. Allowed values: 'none' | 'auto' | 'dependency' | {function} - default: 'auto'excludeChunks
: Allows you to skip some chunks (e.g. don't add the unit-test chunk)xhtml
: true | false
If true
render the link
tags as self-closing, XHTML compliant. Default isfalse
Here's an example webpack config illustrating how to use these options:shell
<% ... %>
template not working?To generate more than one HTML file, declare the plugin more than once in your plugins array:
If the default generated HTML doesn't meet your needs you can supply your own template. The easiest way is to use the template
option and pass a custom HTML file. The html-webpack-plugin will automatically inject all necessary CSS, JS, manifest and favicon files into the markup.
my-index.ejs
:
If you already have a template loader, you can use it to parse the template. Please note that this will also happen if you specifiy the html-loader and use .html
file as template.
You can use the lodash syntax out of the box. If the inject
feature doesn't fit your needs and you want full control over the asset placement use the default template of the html-webpack-template project as a starting point for writing your own.
The following variables are available in the template:
htmlWebpackPlugin
: data specific to this plugin
htmlWebpackPlugin.files
: a massaged representation of the assetsByChunkName
attribute of webpack's stats object. It contains a mapping from entry point name to the bundle filename, eg:
If you've set a publicPath in your webpack config this will be reflected correctly in this assets hash.
htmlWebpackPlugin.options
: the options hash that was passed to the plugin. In addition to the options actually used by this plugin, you can use this hash to pass arbitrary data through to your template.
webpack
: the webpack stats object. Note that this is the stats object as it was at the time the HTML template was emitted and as such may not have the full set of stats that are available after the wepback run is complete.
webpackConfig
: the webpack configuration that was used for this compilation. This can be used, for example, to get the publicPath
(webpackConfig.output.publicPath
).
To include only certain chunks you can limit the chunks being used:
It is also possible to exclude certain chunks by setting the excludeChunks
option:
To allow other plugins to alter the HTML this plugin executes the following events:
Async:
html-webpack-plugin-before-html-generation
html-webpack-plugin-before-html-processing
html-webpack-plugin-alter-asset-tags
html-webpack-plugin-after-html-processing
html-webpack-plugin-after-emit
Sync:
html-webpack-plugin-alter-chunks
Example implementation: html-webpack-harddisk-plugin
Usage:
Then in webpack.config.js
Note that the callback must be passed the htmlPluginData in order to pass this onto any other plugins listening on the same html-webpack-plugin-before-html-processing
event.
You're free to contribute to this project by submitting issues and/or pull requests. This project is test-driven, so keep in mind that every change and new feature should be covered by tests. This project uses the semistandard code style.
Before running the tests, make sure to execute yarn link
and yarn link html-webpack-plugin
(or the npm variant of this).
This project is licensed under MIT.