Emit Deps Webpack Plugin

This is a webpack plugin that simply emit your dependencies based on entry point of webpack. This is especially useful when you are migrating source code, not entire code, but only specific entry point and it's dependencies.

Install

npm install -D emit-deps-webpack-plugin

Usage

The plugin will copy all dependencies(only source code, not library code) based on webpack entry point. The directory structure of output is same with original structure. Just add the plugin to your webpack config as follows:

const EmitDepsWebpackPlugin = require('emit-deps-webpack-plugin')

module.exports = {
  entry: 'index.js',
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
  },
  resolve: { symlinks: false }, // only for Webpack 5+
  plugins: [new EmitDepsWebpackPlugin()]
}

As you build, webpack generate dist folder and also output folder including dependencies from entry point.

NOTE: Webpack 5 introduced a new feature to follow symlinks, but it cause an issue by including all parent directories as result. If you are using Webpack 5, you need to add resolve: { symlinks: false } option to prevent this issue. see webpack/webpack#11971. If you are using Webpack 4, then it's OK.

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
outputPath	{String}	output	The output folder name

Lisence

MIT