Automate Webpack for Cordova based projects

cordova-webpack can be installed using npm.

npm install cordova-webpack

Register the hook in config.xml.

<hook src="node_modules/cordova-webpack/hook.js" type="before_build" />
<hook src="node_modules/cordova-webpack/hook.js" type="before_emulate" />
<hook src="node_modules/cordova-webpack/hook.js" type="before_run" />

For more information, see Cordova hooks.

This will use your Webpack configuration file to build your project in the www directory.

By default this will use webpack.config.js, but it can be configured using the preference webpack-config in config.xml. The value is a path to a configuration file relative to the project root.

<preference name="webpack-config" value="webpack.config.js" />

Just like for the Webpack CLI, for this hook the configuration must expose a Webpack configuration object or a function which returns a Webpack configuration object.

Just like the Webpack CLI, if a function is exposed, it will be called with a webpack mode. Additionally the Cordova context is passed as cordova. env is always undefined.

module.exports = (env, {
  mode,     // 'development' or 'production'
  cordova,  // Cordova context
}) => {
  // Return Webpack configuration
};

For a reference for the cordova object, see Cordova hook context

By default the devtool option is set to false for release builds, and 'inline-source-map' for debug builds.

The output path is always set to www and the ProgressPlugin is always included.