Cesium and Webpack

We’re working on putting together an example app as an official recommendation on getting Cesium up and running with Webpack.

Here’s the plan:

• Cleanup some of the pain points we’ve run into in the past within the Cesium library itself. (PR #5861) This includes:

  • #5417
  • #4876
  • Resolve issue with how Webpack compiles require.toUrl in buildModuleUrl.js

• Create a new cesium-webpack-example repo with the reccomended webpack.config.json configuration.

  • We’ll be using the npm version of Cesium and compiling the Source directory instead of either the minified or unminified built versions of Cesium.
  • We’ll also handle managing the assets files and the built versions of the web workers
  • We’ll include a README with how to run the repo, and any optional configurations for performance or development

• Setup continuous integration test on that repo to run after every release to make sure nothing in a new release breaks the recommended Cesium setup.

Thanks, please let us know your thoughts!

[mramato]

For anyone that stumbles on this issue, see @ggetz’s awesome work on Cesium and webpack here: https://cesiumjs.org/tutorials/cesium-and-webpack/

[markerikson]

Yay! Great to hear this.

I’ll throw in a reminder link to my post on how to load Cesium with Webpack, and produce a DllPlugin bundle for faster builds: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/03/declarative-earth-part-1-cesium-webpack/ .