Webpack sass to css specify a specific folder? - sass

Question

I've been looking over the docs and checking other people's questions but I can't find the simple answer to how to compile all my sass down to a simple css file and specify the directory I want the resulting css file to output to.
For quick context:
I have a public directory with a stylesheets directory and a build directory in it. webpack compiles the app into build, and I'd like to have the sass compile style.css into the stylesheets directory.
Here's a screenshot of my public directory:
public dir img
I'd like to be able to do something like this in my webpack.config.js (only showing pertinent code for brevity):
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
...
// To be called in plugins:
const cssOutput = new ExtractTextPlugin('./public/stylesheets/style.css');
inside module loaders:
{
test: /\.scss$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader!sass-loader'),
},
In plugins:
plugins: [
.
.
.
cssOutput,
],
I'd like to be able to access the output file with this line in my index.html file located in the public directory:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/style.css" />
I'm currently doing this using gulp and it works fine, I'm just trying to transition everything into webpack. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Turns out you can just set the output file like this:
const cssOutput = new ExtractTextPlugin('../stylesheets/style.css', { allChunks: true });
I made the noob mistake of forgetting to add:
require('_scss/style.scss');
in my index.jsx file.
For anyone who runs into this issue, I still had trouble with fonts and images, so inside module loaders in the webpack.config.js I had to add:
{
test: /\.(eot|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|png|jpe?g|gif)(\?\S*)?$/,
loader: 'file',
},
and since this output everything into my build directory, I just changed the css to output everything in the build directory as well to prevent path errors. I changed it to this:
const cssOutput = new ExtractTextPlugin('style.css', { allChunks: true });
Hopefully this helps someone else who runs into this type of issue!

Answer 2

Work for Me::
webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
entry: ['./src/app.ts', './src/sass/style.scss'],
module:{
rules: [
{
test: /\.ts$/,
use: 'ts-loader',
include: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'src', 'src/class')]
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'file-loader',
options: {
name: '/css/[name].css'
}
},
{
loader: 'extract-loader'
},
{
loader: 'css-loader?-url'
},
{
loader: 'postcss-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader'
}
],
include: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/sass')]
}
]
},
output: {
filename: 'js/app.js',
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public')
}
}
postcss.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: {
'autoprefixer': {}
}
}
package.json
{
"name": "tsscript",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"nov": "webpack",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^9.8.5",
"css": "^3.0.0",
"css-loader": "^3.6.0",
"extract-loader": "^5.1.0",
"postcss-loader": "^3.0.0",
"sass": "^1.26.10",
"sass-loader": "^9.0.2",
"style-loader": "^1.2.1",
"ts-loader": "^8.0.0",
"typescript": "^3.9.6",
"webpack": "^4.43.0",
"webpack-cli": "^3.3.12"
}
}
Directory Snap:

Answer 3

Have you take a look at https://www.npmjs.com/package/extract-text-webpack-plugin?
you'll probably need it.

Answer 4

Recent solution, you can use mini-css-extract-plugin, css-loader, and sass-loader. mini-css-extract-plugin can create a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS.
Install dependencies:
npm i -D mini-css-extract-plugin css-loader sass-loader
For example, your main JS file that includes a style is ./src/index.js:
...
import './src/style.scss';
...
Configure webpack.config.js:
...
const path = require('path');
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
module.exports = {
...
entry: {
main: './src/index.js',
},
plugins: [
new MiniCssExtractPlugin(),
],
...
module: {
rules: [
...
{
test: /\.s[ac]ss$/i,
use: [
MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
"css-loader",
"sass-loader",
],
},
...
]
},
resolve: {
modules: ["node_modules", path.resolve(__dirname, "src")],
extensions: ['.js', '.scss', ...]
}
}
Then, you can check your output directory, there will be main.css. The plugin set default name to [name].css (entry name).