hello,
I'm trying to use this plugin to render file loader assets (png) for a universal app on the serverside to match webpack. It doesn't seem to be working, when i run the server code i get this error, it doesn't seem to be transforming the assets ?

SyntaxError: /Users/user/Documents/webpack/server-render2/src/components/react-webpack.png: Unexpected character '�' (1:0)

1 | �PNG
| ^

component:
<img src={require('./react-webpack.png')}/>

webpack:

    {
      test: /\.(jpg|png|gif|eot|svg|ttf|woff|woff2)(\?.*)?$/,
      include: [path.resolve('src')],
      loader: 'file',
      query: {
        name: 'assets/[name].[ext]',
      },
    },

server:

// ...
const app = express();

require('babel-core').transform('code', {
  plugins: [['transform-assets', {
              extensions: ['png'],
              name: 'assets/[name].[ext]',
            }]]
});

//...
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
  match(
    { routes, location: req.url },
    (err, redirectLocation, renderProps) => {

The docs don't say which hashing algorithms are available, or explicitly if you can change it - just a cryptic [file].[ext]?[sha512:hash:base64:7].

It'd be great if the docs explained how this worked, and what the various possibilities were (or at least where the options come from). At the moment, I'm just working it out through trial and error

You've set the engine requirement to 9.x, that seems high considering 8.x is LTS. I don't quite see what this plugin even needs such a high engine version.

Does this plugin support .js files as a valid extension?

I have been trying to solve the Unexpected character issue with SSR. This plugin helps in a way but I feel like there's a conflict with webpack file-loader or there's something I am missing. I am using "file-loader": "^0.11.2" and "babel-plugin-transform-assets": "^0.2.0". This is my loader configuration in my webpack.config.js:

   rules: [
      {
        test: /\.(png|jpg|gif)$/,
        use: {
          loader: 'file-loader',
          options: {
            outputPath: 'images/',
            name: '[name].[ext]'
          }
        }
      },
      {
        enforce: 'pre',
        test: /\.jsx?$/,
        loader: 'eslint-loader',
        exclude: /node_modules/
      },
      {
        test: /\.jsx?$/,
        loader: 'babel-loader'
      }
    ]

Now if I simply run this without the plugin, it creates a folder in my public one where all the images are stored, so everything goes as expected. Unfortunately this throws the mentioned error if I try to do SSR.

I then remove everything that webpack generated (bundle and images) in order to simulate a clean slate, I add this plugin to my .babelrc config file as per docs, I run webpack -p to create the bundle for production BUT no image folder is generated at all this time. The Unexpected character error is now gone but I have no images. These are the plugins I am using:

 "plugins": [
    "react-hot-loader/babel",
    "syntax-dynamic-import",
    "dynamic-import-webpack",
    "transform-class-properties",
    "transform-object-rest-spread"
  ],
  "env": {
    "test": {
      "plugins": ["transform-es2015-modules-commonjs"]
    },
    "production": {
      "plugins": [
        "transform-es2015-modules-commonjs",
        ["transform-assets", {
          "extensions": ["jpg"],
          "publicPath": "images/",
          "name": '[name].[ext]'
        }]
      ]
    }
  }

These steps were pretty simple so I am not sure if I am doing something wrong (most likely) or if this plugin doesn't play well with file-loader with this setup. I even tried outputting the images directly into the public folder thus removing publicPath from the transform-assets config.

I am able to get it setup and running but say I have an import that is transformed. How can I use that in my react components on the server side?