Webpack: Loading images from html templates

Issue

I'm trying to set up an angular project using Webpack but I can't figure out how to reference images from within html templates and have them included in the build.

My project tree is as follows:

package.json
app/
- images/
  - foo.png
- scripts/
- styles/
- templates/

I'm trying to use html-loader along with url-loader and file-loader but it's just not happening.

This is an example template: app/templates/foo.html

<img src="../images/foo.png" />

Problem #1: I would like to be able to reference images relative to app/. Right now, the paths need to be relative to the template file and this will get ugly very quickly (../../../images/foo.png).

Problem #2: Even if I specify the relative path, as I have done above, the project builds successfully but nothing really happens. The paths are left as-is and no images appear in dist/.

Here is my webpack config:

var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var ngminPlugin = require('ngmin-webpack-plugin');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
var ngAnnotatePlugin = require('ng-annotate-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = function(config, env) {
  var appRoot = path.join(__dirname, 'app/')
  if(!env) env = 'development';
  var webpackConfig = {
    cache: true,
    debug: true,
    contentBase: appRoot,
    entry: {
      app: path.join(appRoot, '/scripts/app.coffee')
    },

    output: {
      path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist/),
      publicPath: '/',
      libraryTarget: 'var',
      filename: 'scripts/[name].[hash].js',
      chunkFilename: '[name].[chunkhash].js'
    },

    module: {
      loaders: [
        {
          test: /\.css$/,
          loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style-loader", "css-loader")
        },
        {
            test: /\.scss$/,
            loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader!sass-loader?outputStyle=expanded&includePaths[]=./node_modules/foundation/scss/')
        },
        {
          test: /\.coffee$/,
          loader: 'coffee-loader'
        },
        {
          loader: 'ngtemplate?relativeTo=' + (path.resolve(__dirname, './app')) + '/!html'
        },
        {
          test: /\.png$/, loader: "url-loader?limit=100000&mimetype=image/png&name=[path][name].[hash].[ext]"
        },
        {
          test: /\.jpg$/, loader: "file-loader?name=[path][name].[hash].[ext]"
        },
        {
          test: /\.(woff|woff2)(\?(.*))?$/,
          loader: 'url?prefix=factorynts/&limit=5000&mimetype=application/font-woff'
        },
        {
          test: /\.ttf(\?(.*))?$/,
          loader: 'file?prefix=fonts/'
        },
        {
          test: /\.eot(\?(.*))?$/,
          loader: 'file?prefix=fonts/'
        },
        {
          test: /\.svg(\?(.*))?$/,
          loader: 'file?prefix=fonts/'
        },
        {
          test: /\.json$/,
          loader: 'json'
        }
      ]
    },

    resolve: {
      extensions: [
        '',
        '.js',
        '.coffee',
        '.scss',
        '.css'
      ],
      root: [appRoot],
    },

    singleRun: true,
    plugins: [
      new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(/.*$/, /a^/),
      new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
        '_': 'lodash'
      }),
      new ExtractTextPlugin("styles/[name].[chunkhash].css", {allChunks: true}),
      new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
        template: appRoot + '/app.html',
        filename: 'app.html',
        inject: 'body',
        chunks: ['app']
      })
    ],
    devtool: 'eval'
  }

  if(env === 'production') {
    webpackConfig.plugins = webpackConfig.plugins.concat(
      new ngAnnotatePlugin(),
      new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin(),
      new webpack.DefinePlugin({
        'process-env': {
          'NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify('production')
        }
      }),
      new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
      new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()
    );
    webpackConfig.devtool = false;
    webpackConfig.debug = false;
  }
  return webpackConfig;

}

Solution

1. Yes, you will have to do so for loading images from different path.
2. I had similar issue and I resolved this using file loader:

.

loaders: [{
  // JS LOADER
  test: /\.js$/,
  loader: 'babel-loader?optional[]=runtime',
  exclude: /node_modules/
}, {
  // ASSET LOADER
  test: /\.(woff|woff2|ttf|eot)$/,
  loader: 'file-loader'
},
{
  //IMAGE LOADER
  test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i,
  loader:'file-loader'
},
{
  // HTML LOADER
  test: /\.html$/,
  loader: 'html-loader'
},
{
  //SCSS LOADER
  test: /\.scss$/,
  loaders: ["style-loader", "css-loader", "sass-loader?indentedSyntax"]
}
]

Good Luck

Answered By - A_J