As a developer I would like to use webpack dev server configuration for testing my production build

[thescientist13]

Type of Change

• New Feature Request
• Documentation
• Improvement / Suggestion
• Bug
• Other (please clarify below)

Summary

In the serve task, which is used to host a production build locally, a different tool is used. However, for development, webpack-dev-server supports a lot of features like proxying API requests and being able to augment requests / responses.

It would be nice to reuse this for production build testing.

Details

Essentially, create a webpack.config.serve.js that would reuse parts of webpack.config.develop.js and serve would:

1. Build the app
2. Start webpack-dev-server with this new config