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Le garcon
Le garcon

Reputation: 8377

How to execute webpack --watch and another script?

I want to compile my es6 code with babel using webpack and then run another script that starts a server in dev mode.

How can I achieve this? When running the script webpack --watch && node build/index.js only the first part of the script is executed

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2087

Answers (1)

juzraai
juzraai

Reputation: 5943

Only the first part is executed because Webpack in watch mode (webpack --watch) will continue running, and the shell will wait for it to return, because the return value is required for the && (AND) operator.

You should run them in parallel. You can use for example concurrently package (npm install --save-dev concurrently). And your script would look like this:

concurrently "webpack --watch" "node build/index.js"

This will start both Webpack watch mode and your server, parallelly.

If you want to ensure a complete build before running your dev server, you can add webpack && to the beginning of the above script.

Maybe a better way would be to integrate the Webpack watch mode into your dev server, then you would have to start only your dev server.

Upvotes: 4

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