This is a fork of webpack-externals-plugin, but that works in Webpack 5+!
This is inspired by tomasAlabes/webpack2-externals-plugin, thank you Tomas!
Provides more powerful externals configuration options.
new ExternalsPlugin({ type, test, include, exclude })
, where:
type
represents the type of external (/var|this|commonjs2?|amd|umd/
). Defaults tooptions.output.libraryTarget
.test
,include
,exclude
work as they do with loader configuration.
The following webpack configuration considers all modules under the local node_modules/
directory as externals.
webpack.config.js
:
var ExternalsPlugin = require('webpack5-externals-plugin');
module.exports = {
entry: './app.js',
output: {
path: __dirname + '/dist',
filename: 'bundle.js',
},
plugins: [
new ExternalsPlugin({
type: 'commonjs',
include: __dirname + '/node_modules',
}),
],
};
Webpack externals are only filtered depending on the user request (require('webpack')
=> webpack
).
With this plugin, externals are filtered depending on the path of the resolved module (require('webpack')
=> <dir_path>/node_modules/webpack/lib/webpack.js
).
This lets you include or exclude entire directories depending on the actual path of the resolved module.