Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Server-side Webpack configuration

Modify the code to require nodeExternals, and update the config object with the following code in your webpack.config.server.js file to configure Webpack for bundling server-side code:

mern-simplesetup/webpack.config.server.js:

const nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals')const config = {  name: "server",  entry: [ path.join(CURRENT_WORKING_DIR , './server/server.js') ],  target: "node",  output: {    path: path.join(CURRENT_WORKING_DIR , '/dist/'),    filename: "server.generated.js",    publicPath: '/dist/',    libraryTarget: "commonjs2"  },  externals: [nodeExternals()],  module: {    rules: [      {        test: /\.js$/,        exclude: /node_modules/,        use: [ 'babel-loader' ]      }    ]  }}

The mode option is not set here explicitly but will ...