Passing command line arguments to webpack.config.js

Question

I have a simple webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  entry: \"./app.js\",
  output: {
    filename: \"bundle.js\"
  },
}

And I want to p

Answer 1

You can provide custom parameters on the env variable from the command line, so for this example you could call:

webpack --env.entry='./app.js' --env.output='bundle.js'

and use them in your webpack by doing

module.exports = env => ({
  entry: env.entry,
  output: {
    filename: env.output
  },
});