In order to prevent this question being marked as duplicate, I want to mention that I have referred to a number of similar SO questions and tried the accepted/most upvoted answers, but those did not help:

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   What am I missing here?

   CodePudding user response：

   Your setup is correct; based on your filename settings in Webpack, your bundle is located at http://localhost:8080/bundle.js

   If you'd like to copy over an index.html file to serve the contents of your bundle, you may want to take a look at HtmlWebpackPlugin here: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/html-webpack-plugin/

   CodePudding user response：

   Thanks @dave-kiss for pointing in the right direction, the key idea being the use of HtmlWebpackPlugin and HtmlLoader.

   I have committed the changes to the repository https://github.com/phalgunv/basic-rxjs-starter.git in the branch bug-fix-content-not-served for reference.

   Here are the steps followed:

   1. Install html-load

      npm install --save-dev html-loader html-webpack-plugin

   2. Update webpack.config.js modules->rules with html-loader

      module: { rules: [ { test: /.tsx?$/, use: "ts-loader", exclude: /node_modules/, }, { test: /.html$/, loader: "html-loader", }, ], },

   3. Update webpack.config.js with HtmlWebpackPlugin

      plugins: [ new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: "src/index.html", }), ],

   4. Remove <script> tag from index.html

   Check the commit - https://github.com/phalgunv/basic-rxjs-starter/commit/15d0779614ccd0428bb47bc308bea8f7f0509ea0 for refernce.