Is it possible to write webpack config in typescript?

Question

I saw, when searching, that there are typings for webpack. So it seems I can write webpack.config.js in typescript? But how can I do that?

Answer 1

If you do not want to transpile your webpack config and then pass it to webpack script in two steps I came up with other solution. Using webpack programmatically is really easy, so I have created a build script build.ts

import webpack from 'webpack'

import config from './webpack.config'

webpack(config, (err, stats) => err 
    ? console.log(err) 
    : console.log(stats)
);

Then you may run npm script with ts-node like so

"build": "ts-node --project ./path-to/tsconfig.json ./build.ts"