# html-webpack-plugin
**Repository Path**: mirrors_svenanders/html-webpack-plugin
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: html-webpack-plugin
- **Description**: Simplifies creation of HTML files to serve your webpack bundles
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-18
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-31
## Categories & Tags
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## README
HTML Webpack Plugin
===================
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This is a [webpack](http://webpack.github.io/) plugin that 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 using lodash templates or use your own loader.
Installation
------------
Install the plugin with npm:
```shell
$ npm install html-webpack-plugin@2 --save-dev
```
Migration guide from 1.x
------------------------
If you used the 1.x version please take a look at the [migration guide](https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin/blob/master/migration.md)
In case I missed something please open a pull request for it.
See also issue [#186](https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin/issues/186)
Basic Usage
-----------
The plugin will generate an HTML5 file for you that includes all your webpack
bundles in the body using `script` tags. Just add the plugin to your webpack
config as follows:
```javascript
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
var webpackConfig = {
entry: 'index.js',
output: {
path: 'dist',
filename: 'index_bundle.js'
},
plugins: [new HtmlWebpackPlugin()]
}
```
This will generate a file `dist/index.html` containing the following:
```html
Webpack App
```
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 the [ExtractTextPlugin](https://github.com/webpack/extract-text-webpack-plugin))
then these will be included with `` tags in the HTML head.
Configuration
-------------
You can pass a hash of configuration options to `HtmlWebpackPlugin`.
Allowed values are as follows:
- `title`: The title to use for the generated HTML document.
- `filename`: The file to write the HTML to. Defaults to `index.html`.
You can specify a subdirectory here too (eg: `assets/admin.html`).
- `template`: Path to the template. Supports loaders e.g. `html!./index.html`.
- `inject`: `true | 'head' | 'body' | false` Inject all assets into the given `template` or `templateContent` - When passing `true` or `'body'` all javascript resources will be placed at the bottom of the body element. `'head'` will place the scripts in the head element.
- `favicon`: Adds the given favicon path to the output html.
- `minify`: `{...} | false` Pass a [html-minifier](https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier#options-quick-reference) options object to minify the output.
- `hash`: `true | false` if `true` then append a unique webpack compilation hash to all
included scripts and css files. This is useful for cache busting.
- `cache`: `true | false` if `true` (default) try to emit the file only if it was changed.
- `showErrors`: `true | false` if `true` (default) errors details will be written into the html page.
- `chunks`: Allows you to add only some chunks (e.g. only the unit-test chunk)
- `chunksSortMode`: Allows to control how chunks should be sorted before they are included to the html. Allowed values: 'none' | 'auto' | 'dependency' | {function} - default: 'auto'
- `excludeChunks`: Allows you to skip some chunks (e.g. don't add the unit-test chunk)
Here's an example webpack config illustrating how to use these options:
```javascript
{
entry: 'index.js',
output: {
path: 'dist',
filename: 'index_bundle.js',
hash: true
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
title: 'My App',
filename: 'assets/admin.html'
})
]
}
```
Generating Multiple HTML Files
------------------------------
To generate more than one HTML file, declare the plugin more than
once in your plugins array:
```javascript
{
entry: 'index.js',
output: {
path: 'dist',
filename: 'index_bundle.js'
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin(), // Generates default index.html
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ // Also generate a test.html
filename: 'test.html',
template: 'src/assets/test.html'
})
]
}
```
Writing Your Own Templates
--------------------------
If the default generated HTML doesn't meet your needs you can supply
your own template. The easiest way is to use the `inject` option and pass a custom html file.
The html-webpack-plugin will automatically inject all necessary css, js, manifest
and favicon files into the markup.
```javascript
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
title: 'Custom template',
template: 'my-index.ejs', // Load a custom template
inject: 'body' // Inject all scripts into the body
})
]
```
`my-index.ejs`:
```html
<%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %>
```
If you already have a template loader, you can use it to parse the template.
Please note that this will also happen if you specifiy the html-loader and use `.html` file as template.
```javascript
module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /\.hbs$/, loader: "handlebars" }
]
},
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
title: 'Custom template using Handlebars',
template: 'my-index.hbs'
})
]
```
You can use the lodash syntax out of the box.
If the `inject` feature doesn't fit your needs and you want full control over the asset placement use the [default template](https://github.com/jaketrent/html-webpack-template/blob/86f285d5c790a6c15263f5cc50fd666d51f974fd/index.html) of the [html-webpack-template project](https://github.com/jaketrent/html-webpack-template) as a starting point for writing your own.
The following variables are available in the template:
- `htmlWebpackPlugin`: data specific to this plugin
- `htmlWebpackPlugin.files`: a massaged representation of the
`assetsByChunkName` attribute of webpack's [stats](https://github.com/webpack/docs/wiki/node.js-api#stats)
object. It contains a mapping from entry point name to the bundle filename, eg:
```json
"htmlWebpackPlugin": {
"files": {
"css": [ "main.css" ],
"js": [ "assets/head_bundle.js", "assets/main_bundle.js"],
"chunks": {
"head": {
"entry": "assets/head_bundle.js",
"css": [ "main.css" ]
},
"main": {
"entry": "assets/main_bundle.js",
"css": []
},
}
}
}
```
If you've set a publicPath in your webpack config this will be reflected
correctly in this assets hash.
- `htmlWebpackPlugin.options`: the options hash that was passed to
the plugin. In addition to the options actually used by this plugin,
you can use this hash to pass arbitrary data through to your template.
- `webpack`: the webpack [stats](https://github.com/webpack/docs/wiki/node.js-api#stats)
object. Note that this is the stats object as it was at the time the HTML template
was emitted and as such may not have the full set of stats that are available
after the wepback run is complete.
- `webpackConfig`: the webpack configuration that was used for this compilation. This
can be used, for example, to get the `publicPath` (`webpackConfig.output.publicPath`).
Filtering chunks
----------------
To include only certain chunks you can limit the chunks being used:
```javascript
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
chunks: ['app']
})
]
```
It is also possible to exclude certain chunks by setting the `excludeChunks` option:
```javascript
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
excludeChunks: ['dev-helper']
})
]
```
Events
------
To allow other plugins to alter the html this plugin executes the following events:
* `html-webpack-plugin-before-html-generation`
* `html-webpack-plugin-before-html-processing`
* `html-webpack-plugin-after-html-processing`
* `html-webpack-plugin-after-emit`
Usage:
```javascript
compilation.plugin('html-webpack-plugin-before-html-processing', function(htmlPluginData, callback) {
htmlPluginData.html += 'The magic footer';
callback();
});
```