enable use other than express

[noahehall]

• Operating System: ubuntu
• Node Version: latest
• NPM Version: latest
• webpack Version: latest
• webpack-dev-middleware Version: latest

Feature Proposal

enable use of other backends. similar to my hacky approach here

if I could just say 'hey use this middleware instead of the default one' that would make my life really easier

thx!

Feature Use Case

i want to use koa, and koa-webpack doesnt work with webpack5

[anshumanv]

Seems fair, if there are no means already to support this, @alexander-akait what do you think?

[noahehall]

here is a working example

[alexander-akait]

Yes, why not, PR welcome

[alexander-akait]

We already support connect, express and fastify https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-middleware#fastify

[anshumanv]

Yes, why not, PR welcome

will PR 👍

[alexander-akait]

Don't forget to add tests 😄

[anshumanv]

yep, any better name for option?

[alexander-akait]

No need option, it is internal changes, maybe it will work already, maybe we need to use other API to get headers or something else

[alexander-akait]

Example of pure API and express https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-middleware/blob/master/src/middleware.js#L105

[noahehall]

you guys are awesome. @alexander-akait

im planning on testing this tonight. sorry for the delay

[IanVS]

Hi, in my understanding, using fastify-express essentially means that you run an express server inside of fastify. I'd really like to use actual fastify. Does anyone know of any options to do this? Edit, I came across https://github.com/gajus/fastify-webpack-hot which looks promising.

[alexander-akait]

I can accept PR for adding fastify here and for dev server too

[alexander-akait]

We want to move webpack-dev-middleware to webpack-dev-server (and make it monorepo, so all packages related to dev server will be in one place), so I want to close this in favor webpack/webpack-dev-server#4741, we still consider it (and I think we will implement this after the next major release)