HtmlWebpackPlugin

TheHtmlWebpackPlugin 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 usinglodash templates, or use your ownloader.

Installation

npminstall --save-dev html-webpack-plugin

Basic Usage

The plugin will generate an HTML5 file for you that includes all your webpackbundles in the body usingscript tags. Add the plugin to your webpackconfiguration as follows:

const HtmlWebpackPlugin=require('html-webpack-plugin');const path=require('path');module.exports={  entry:'index.js',  output:{    path: path.resolve(__dirname,'./dist'),    filename:'index_bundle.js',},  plugins:[newHtmlWebpackPlugin()],};

This will generate a filedist/index.html containing the following:

<!DOCTYPEhtml><html><head><metacharset="UTF-8"/><title>webpack App</title></head><body><scriptsrc="index_bundle.js"></script></body></html>

If you have multiple webpack entry points, they will all be included with<script> tags in the generated HTML.

If you have any CSS assets in webpack's output (for example, CSS extracted with theMiniCssExtractPlugin) then these will be included with<link> tags in the<head> element of generated HTML.