Webpack-cli: [UI] Setting up server project

[ematipico]

The UI project will bootstrap a server that will serve the static resources that will be compiled from a different task.

The server, also, will be responsible of detecting all the requests coming from the UI and execute the different commands like

• creating a new webpack configuration file
• modify existing ones
• ideally execute the builds givin a specific webpack

The webpack-cli should already have all the APIs ready for these kind of operations. If not, a refactor will needed in order to expose to achieve such features.

The goal of this is issue is to have a simple and good foundation of a server that we can bootstrap and ready to receive commands from the UI.

[LakshSingla]

I would like to take up this issue. For the starters, I will make init functionality as laid out in the packages/ui-server package. How should one go about creating init for a non default scaffold ?

[LakshSingla]

@ematipico @evenstensberg I am stuck on creating the init functionality. To achieve the creating of webpack config file, I was using child_process module, and communicating via the @webpack-cli/init using its spawn function. But there is difficulty in synchronisation of input and ouput. ( I am creating an output string and directly dumping it onto the child process's stdin. I would retry it once more by having seperate calls to the stdin.write() of child process. Is there any other alternative I can try (without refactoring other packages), or am I approaching this issue wrongly ??

[ematipico]

Would you like to create a PR with the code so we can give some direction and try to understand the problem?

I don't think you need to use a raw child_process. You can use execa for that (we use it already for our tests).

[LakshSingla]

@ematipico Sure thing. Lemme use execa in my code and I will send a PR.

[LakshSingla]

@ematipico Please review the PR and confirm if I am on the right track. It is not the cleanest way to achieve the above task hence I am a little skeptical if I have understood the aim correctly. I will make the necessary changes as soon as possible so that we are making some real progress on this goal.

[rishabh3112]

@webpack/cli-team We can now start developing endpoints. Anyone willing to collaborate on init endpoint with me.

[renatoagds]

@rishabh3112 I would like to help the init endpoint with you 👍

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