README.md

Perspective Webpack Plugin

For use with Webpack, this plugin allows smaller & faster loading assets. The plugin takes care of:

• Copying the Web Worker engine assets to your output directory.
• Handling cross-origin loading of the Web Worker assets.
• Packaging the LESS and HTML assets for the perspective-viewer webpack plugin.

Without this plugin or a manual equivalent of these steps, the WebAssembly binary we be inlined as a base64 string in the resulting .js asset, which impacts total asset size and load time. It will not in any way affect actual runtime performance - the inline and plugin compilations modes are otherwise identical.

Example

const PerspectivePlugin = require("@finos/perspective-webpack-plugin");

module.exports = {
    entry: "./in.js",
    output: {
        filename: "out.js",
        path: "build"
    },
    plugins: [new PerspectivePlugin()]
};

0.4.4 and below

These versions pre-date In order to use Perspective via webpack, so this plugin is a requirement.