Nolan Lawson#MastodonPerf Spent the last hour trying to figure out how to use Webpack's url-loader alongside file-loader to inline images smaller than a certain size as dataURIs. I give up; I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this to work correctly.
The problem is that i can't figure out how to 1) skip inlining fonts, and 2) not double-process images with both url-loader and file-loader, because that leads to broken dataURIs. It also takes forever for Webpack to reload, so it's hard to just fiddle with it and test. Also the docs are really scant for both url-loader and file-loader. Why is this so hard?
Also apparently my punishment for never learning Webpack 1 is that whenever I look at StackOverflow answers I have no idea whether they're for Webpack 1 or Webpack 2
Hm seems like both url-loader and file-loader are pretty tiny though. Maybe the solution is to just write a custom loader to do the thing I want.
Maiyannah Bishop
Verius@nolan Doesn't matter, by the time you know what you're doing webpack will be obsolete anyway.
Lew Perin@nolan Do you realize how many people you just licensed to ask, “Why is this so hard?”