How to load image files with webpack file-loader
Regarding problem #1
Once you have the file-loader configured in the webpack.config, whenever you use import/require it tests the path against all loaders, and in case there is a match it passes the contents through that loader. In your case, it matched
{ test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i, loader: "file-loader?name=/public/icons/[name].[ext]"}// For newer versions of Webpack it should be{ test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i, loader: 'file-loader', options: { name: '/public/icons/[name].[ext]' }}
and therefore you see the image emitted to
dist/public/icons/imageview_item_normal.png
which is the wanted behavior.
The reason you are also getting the hash file name, is because you are adding an additional inline file-loader. You are importing the image as:
'file!../../public/icons/imageview_item_normal.png'.
Prefixing with file!
, passes the file into the file-loader again, and this time it doesn't have the name configuration.
So your import should really just be:
import img from '../../public/icons/imageview_item_normal.png'
Update
As noted by @cgatian, if you actually want to use an inline file-loader, ignoring the webpack global configuration, you can prefix the import with two exclamation marks (!!):
import '!!file!../../public/icons/imageview_item_normal.png'.
Regarding problem #2
After importing the png, the img
variable only holds the path the file-loader "knows about", which is public/icons/[name].[ext]
(aka "file-loader? name=/public/icons/[name].[ext]"
). Your output dir "dist" is unknown.You could solve this in two ways:
- Run all your code under the "dist" folder
- Add
publicPath
property to your output config, that points to your output directory (in your case ./dist).
Example:
output: { path: PATHS.build, filename: 'app.bundle.js', publicPath: PATHS.build},
I had an issue uploading images to my React JS project. I was trying to use the file-loader to load the images; I was also using Babel-loader in my react.
I used the following settings in the webpack:
{test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i, loader: "file-loader?name=app/images/[name].[ext]"},
This helped load my images, but the images loaded were kind of corrupted. Then after some research I came to know that file-loader has a bug of corrupting the images when babel-loader is installed.
Hence, to work around the issue I tried to use URL-loader which worked perfectly for me.
I updated my webpack with the following settings
{test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i, loader: "url-loader?name=app/images/[name].[ext]"},
I then used the following command to import the images
import img from 'app/images/GM_logo_2.jpg'
<div className="large-8 columns"> <img style={{ width: 300, height: 150 }} src={img} /></div>
Install file loader first:
$ npm install file-loader --save-dev
And add this rule in webpack.config.js
{ test: /\.(png|jpg|gif)$/, use: [{ loader: 'file-loader', options: {} }] }