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Ryan Barone
7,079 PointsWhy do you do "./" before the referencing the app.js file?
At 1:52 in "Setting Up Webpack", "Configuring Webpack" video, you put the following:
module.exports = { entry: './app.js', ... }
Why not just do 'app.js' like <script src="app.js"></script>?
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Chris Shaw
26,676 PointsHi Ryan Barone,
We do this as Webpack runs in the context of Node, typically the default context when working inside a project folder will be the node_modules folder which isn't great since our code doesn't live there. To overcome this, the majority of developers will prefix paths with ./ which defines the path context to the root of the project folder where your webpack.config.js file lives.
You will see this a lot more as you progress further into ES6 modules which also require the use of ./ to define the root of the project.
Hope that helps.