rewire-webpack-plugin

Webpack plugin to enable rewire in webpack bundles

This is a fork of rewire-webpack that adds support for webpack 4.

Installation

npm install --save-dev rewire-webpack-plugin

Usage

Add the plugin in the webpack config:

// webpack.config.js

const RewireWebpackPlugin = require("rewire-webpack-plugin");
module.exports = {

	// ...

	plugins: [
		new RewireWebpackPlugin()
	]
};

After that you can use rewire() in your scripts as usual, and webpack will happily bundle them.

Limitations

• The variable in which you load rewire has to be named rewire:

  const rewire = require('rewire');

  Any other names will not work:

  // this won't work
  const my_favorite_rewire = require('rewire')

  If you do use a different name, the emitted bundle will throw the error __webpack_require__.m[module] is undefined.

  It is possible to declare with either var, let, or const.

• The argument to rewire() has to be a string, not a variable:

  const rewire = require('rewire');
  const my_lib = rewire('./src/my_lib.js');

  Using variables or string templates won't work:

  const rewire = require('rewire');
  
  // this won't work
  const path_to_lib = './src/my_lib.js';
  const my_lib = rewire(path_to_lib);
  
  // this won't work either
  const lib_name = 'my_lib';
  const my_lib2 = rewire(`./src/${lib_name}.js`);

  In the last two cases, the emitted bundle will throw the error __webpack_require__.m[module] is undefined.

See also rewire limitations, and see the wiki on troubleshooting for more potential errors and their solutions.

Developing

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/rensbaardman/rewire-webpack-plugin.git
cd rewire-webpack-plugin

Install dependencies

npm install

Note that Chrome and Firefox are needed to run some of the tests in the browser. If they haven't been installed, running npm install should install them too.

Running tests

There are four types of tests:

• npm run test:unit - unit tests, runs in Node
• npm run test:functional - functional tests, runs in Node
• npm run test:shared - the shared rewire test case, which verifies that the version of rewire included in the webpack bundle is compatible with the default rewire implementation. This test runs in the browser with Karma as test runner.
• npm run test:installation - installation tests, to make sure publishing the package would result in a working version of the plugin (e.g. to check that the correct files are included, and that installating doesn't generate any unexpected errors)

npm test will run all the four types of tests sequentially.

Credits

This is a fork of jhnns/rewire-webpack, which was based on contributions from sokra. This fork contains updates from dribba/rewire-webpack. Both have been published under the Unlicense.

Substantial parts of the code base are based on rewire itself, which is published under the MIT license.

License

rewire-webpack-plugin is licensed under the MIT License.