Compile CSS and JS in difference files / WEBPACK - css

Question

For 2 days I have been trying to compile the js and css file to a separate file because now everything is together. Does anyone have any idea how this can be solved?
I would be very grateful for your help.
There is my code webpack.config.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const BrowserSyncPlugin = require('browser-sync-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/dist'),
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.m?js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
presets: ['#babel/preset-env']
}
}
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
"style-loader", // creates style nodes from JS strings
{
loader: "css-loader",
options: {
url: false
}
},
"sass-loader" // compiles Sass to CSS, using Node Sass by default
]
},
]
},
plugins: [
new BrowserSyncPlugin({
// browse to http://localhost:3000/ during development,
// ./public directory is being served
host: 'localhost',
port: 3000,
files: ['./src/*.html'],
server: { baseDir: ['src'] }
}),
new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
$: 'jquery',
jQuery: 'jquery'
})
]
};

Answer 1

I think MiniCssExtractPlugin is what you are looking for.
It takes the output of css-loader and create .css bundles. It takes care of downloading them in the browser (by pushing a section of code in webpack runtime code), and also yeah, it minifies the .css :).
Simple usage:
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [new MiniCssExtractPlugin()],
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.css$/i,
use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 'css-loader'],
},
],
},
};
Yes you are right. Style-loader creates javascript snippets that later in runtime creates .css rules and push them to the browser global css scope.