I was learning webpack and I came across loaders,The defination of loaders says that it transform your code,so that it can be included inside the javascript bundle.
But,How html-loader works?
The html-loader defination says that it exports html as String (What does it mean).
it also says that every loadable attributes (for example <img src="image.png" is imported as require('./image.png'),and you may need to specify loader for images in your configuration (file-loader or url-loader), What does it mean.
I want to know, what actually html-loader do. Does it convert html into String or it just convert the img tag to require. How all this work together.
Can someone explain in detail.
The html-loader is a Webpack loader that is used to import HTML files into a JavaScript module as a string. It allows Webpack to treat HTML files as modules that can be loaded, parsed, and processed like any other JavaScript module.
When you use the html-loader, it reads the contents of the HTML file and converts it into a JavaScript module that exports the HTML as a string. This string can then be included in your JavaScript bundle, allowing you to use the HTML in your code.
In addition to exporting the HTML as a string, the html-loader also processes the HTML to replace any loadable attributes (such as img src or link href) with require statements. For example, if you have an img tag with a src attribute of "image.png", the html-loader will replace it with a require statement like this:
<img src="${require('./image.png')}" />This tells Webpack to include the image file in the bundle and to use the resulting URL as the src attribute for the image.
However, the html-loader itself does not handle the loading of the image file - it only transforms the HTML code. For the image to be included in the bundle, you need to specify a loader for images in your Webpack configuration. This can be either the file-loader or the url-loader, both of which can be used to load and process image files.
So, to summarize, the html-loader transforms HTML files into JavaScript modules that export the HTML as a string. It also replaces loadable attributes with require statements. However, to include any external resources (such as images) referenced in the HTML, you need to use a separate loader (such as file-loader or url-loader) to handle the loading and processing of those resources.