Is your proposal related to a problem?
If I want to configure an alternative loader for a file, it's quite frustrating if (1) we can't eject and (2) we can't use inline loaders.
I was helping someone to render Markdown in CRA. In order to do so, we obviously have to get around the default file-loader for MD files so we could get the content into the React code. To start with something simple, I recommended raw-loader. With my limited experience with CRA, there's no way to customize Webpack loaders unless I eject, so I recommended them to use inline !!raw-loader!. However, this led to the import/no-webpack-loader-syntax error, which I have to spend another five minutes explaining what ESLint does and how this rule can be gotten around.
Describe the solution you'd like
I understand that CRA is a very, very opinionated tool and promotes "good practices", but this rule just gets in the way as soon as we want to do something fancier. How many people who use inline loaders don't know what they are doing and don't know the alternative—using webpack.config.js?
Describe alternatives you've considered
Expose a webpack.config.js file that's merged with the default config? From the projects I've ejected, doesn't seem like it's currently the case. #8869 has been open with no responses for almost two years now.
Additional context
Is your proposal related to a problem?
If I want to configure an alternative loader for a file, it's quite frustrating if (1) we can't eject and (2) we can't use inline loaders.
I was helping someone to render Markdown in CRA. In order to do so, we obviously have to get around the default
file-loaderfor MD files so we could get the content into the React code. To start with something simple, I recommendedraw-loader. With my limited experience with CRA, there's no way to customize Webpack loaders unless I eject, so I recommended them to use inline!!raw-loader!. However, this led to theimport/no-webpack-loader-syntaxerror, which I have to spend another five minutes explaining what ESLint does and how this rule can be gotten around.Describe the solution you'd like
I understand that CRA is a very, very opinionated tool and promotes "good practices", but this rule just gets in the way as soon as we want to do something fancier. How many people who use inline loaders don't know what they are doing and don't know the alternative—using
webpack.config.js?Describe alternatives you've considered
Expose a
webpack.config.jsfile that's merged with the default config? From the projects I've ejected, doesn't seem like it's currently the case. #8869 has been open with no responses for almost two years now.Additional context