We just built a nice little development environment using Webpack. It's time to put it into action. If you have done the production optimizations, make sure you have created the .env file in the project root folder and your NODE_ENV environment variable inside that file is not production. Simply set the value of NODE_ENV=dev while we are working on the application. We are going to build the Meme Creator now. Make sure you have included the memes.js and memes.css files (if you used ExtractTextPlugin) from the dist directory in your index.html file.
Open up the memes.js file in your text editor and keep webpack-dev-server running (npm run watch). Our first step is to create a reference to all the required DOM elements in variables in our class. We can then use the references to modify the elements later, from inside the class. Also, whenever we are...