What main loaders are connected for a React frontend application?

A React frontend application typically connects a set of loaders that let you work with JSX, modern JavaScript, styles, and assets.

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#1. babel-loader - processing JSX and modern JS

Task: transpiles JSX and new ES6+ syntax into compatible JavaScript. Used together with presets:

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#2. Loaders for styles (css-loader, style-loader or MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader)

Task: connecting CSS to the project.

Often together:

• css-loader - allows importing CSS into JS (import './styles.css')
• style-loader - injects styles into <style> in the browser (for development)
• in production, MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader is usually used instead of style-loader (CSS goes into a separate file)

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#3. Loader for preprocessors (as needed)

If SCSS/SASS or LESS is used:

• sass-loader + sass
• or less-loader + less

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#4. Loaders for assets

To import images, fonts, SVG, and so on:

• asset/resource (or file-loader previously)
• asset/inline (or url-loader previously)

Today the built-in asset mechanism is more commonly used, without extra packages.

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#Summary - standard set for React:

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