webpack implementation

[cescoferraro]

Its official, Ionic is shifting to Webpack. This repo will become obsolete over time if it keeps using browserify.

I have been trying but keep getting errors with @angular/testing

[lathonez]

Thanks for raising. I am aware of this, it was also raised here earlier.

What's requirement for implementing Webpack before beta.12 has been released? I may be able to help you with Karma (will reply on Ionic forum), but am not interested in making any changes here before Ionic do.

As a bit of history, this repo has been around since the very early days of Ionic 2 and we've always followed their build configuration as closely as possible:

• gulp (calling tsc directly)
• webpack (via gulp)
• ionic-app-lib (webpack wrapper, via gulp)
• browserify

If the new Webpack build is indeed released in beta.12, we'll be able to get a look at their implementation and mirror it as closely as possible for the test build.

If we try to implement anything before that there's a good chance we'll end up reworking the change to bring us closer to Ionic.

TL;dr - as soon as Ionic release a new build process, I'll move this over to mirror it as closely as possible, not before then.