[Feature Request] Add an option "onDemandLoading"

[cbazureau]

• Operating System: All
• Node Version: All
• NPM Version: All
• webpack Version: 4/5
• mini-css-extract-plugin Version: 1.3.8

Feature Proposal

The goal is to add an option onDemandLoading (true by default) to be able to desactivate On-Demand-Loading mini-css-extract-plugin implementation

This package does two things :

This plugin extracts CSS into separate files. It creates a CSS file per JS file which contains CSS. It supports On-Demand-Loading of CSS and SourceMaps. https://webpack.js.org/plugins/mini-css-extract-plugin/

In some case/project the second part is not needed because it's covered by another plugin or specific code (in our case we have an asyncComponent loader that takes care of js/css/rtl-css parallel loading.

If onDemandLoading is false the lines from https://github.com/webpack-contrib/mini-css-extract-plugin/blob/master/src/index.js#L568 to https://github.com/webpack-contrib/mini-css-extract-plugin/blob/master/src/index.js#L1060 will be simply ignored.

Feature Use Case

SSR stack with its own asyncComponent loader that loads itself .js/.css/.rtl.css

If this feature is accepted, i will push a pull request that does the job...

[alexander-akait]

Sorry, out of scope mini-css-extract-plugin

In some case/project the second part is not needed because it's covered by another plugin or specific code (in our case we have an asyncComponent loader that takes care of js/css/rtl-css parallel loading.

Just don't extract them

[alexander-akait]

Also it is unsafe, because order can be wrong