multiple-bundles-webpack-plugin

Create multiple bundles from independent js/scss components.

This plugin prevents Webpack 4 from creating an separate output file from multiple, unrelated components. Inspired by Webpack-flat-bundle.

Usage

⚠️ To make independent css files, use Mini-Extract-Css-Plugin.

Installation

npm install --save-dev multiple-bundles-webpack-plugin

Usage

Import plugin and helper method:

const { MultipleBundlesPlugin, globEntries } = require('multiple-bundles-webpack-plugin');

Add following to your webpack config:

const entries = {
  ...globEntries(['./src/js/*/*.js']),
  ...globEntries(['./src/sass/*/*.scss'], { sass: true }),
};

sass key as a second argument is needed to replace bundles paths from sass/scss to css

It will create an object something like that:

{ 'js/components/helloWorld': './src/js/components/helloWorld.js',
  'js/libs/picturefill': './src/js/libs/picturefill.js',
  'css/core/_variables': './src/sass/core/_variables.scss',
  'css/core/main': './src/sass/core/main.scss',
  'css/utils/author': './src/sass/utils/author.scss' }

Then add entries object to entry property in webpack's object:

{
  entry: entries
}

How it works?

• Helper method construct webpack entry object out of files that are matched by glob pattern.

By default this search tree and construct nested output tree, matching pattern provided.

{
  plugins: [
    new MultipleBundlesPlugin({
        test: /\.js$/,
        entries: globEntries(['./sass/*.scss']))
    }
  ]
}

Feature Sets

Property	Description
test	Match resources to being checked by plugin
entries	Pass globEntries object to match source of files.

If you're using Mini-Extract-Css-Plugin it's important to set test property to /\.js$\ to matching only js files, Otherwise plugin will prevent css files from emitting.

SourceMaps

This plugin supports CSS and JS SourceMaps.
Recommended devtool flags:

• cheap-module-source-map
• source-map
• inline-source-map
• inline-cheap-module-source-map

See reference to get more: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/devtool/

Eval sourcemaps e.g. eval-source-map do not work properly with Mini-Extract-Css-Plugin. This issue is not related with this plugin.

Feel free to make a pull request with new features or hotfixes.