How to create a Vue3 Application with Webpack - JavaScript Version

In this article, let's create a Vue3 template project, it involves Vue3, Webpack.

https://github.com/markliu2013/vue3-template-js

Create a folder and initialize NPM

npm init -y

Install Vue3

npm i vue

Install Webpack

npm i -D webpack webpack-cli webpack-dev-server html-webpack-plugin

Create src folder and index.html, App.vue, main.js

Install babel-loader

npm i -D @babel/core @babel/preset-env babel-loader

Create file babel.config.json

{
  "presets": [
    "@babel/preset-env"
  ]
}

Install vue-loader

npm i -D vue-loader

Create file webpack.config.js

const path = require('path');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const {VueLoaderPlugin} = require("vue-loader");

module.exports = {
    mode: "production",
    devtool: "source-map",
    entry: './src/main.js',
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
        filename: '[name].chunk.js',
        clean: true
    },
    plugins: [
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
            template: 'src/index.html' // to import index.html file inside index.js
        }),
        new VueLoaderPlugin(),
    ],
    devServer: {
        port: 3039 // you can change the port
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.vue$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: 'vue-loader',
                }
            },
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: {
                    loader: 'babel-loader',
                }
            },
        ]
    },
};