wext-manifest-webpack-plugin

Webpack plugin to solve the problem of generating js file for manifest.json entry

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Table of Contents

- How it works
- Installation
- Usage
- Issues
- 🐛 Bugs
- Linting & TypeScript Config
- LICENSE

How it works

It just find js files from manifest entry and remove the js file from the compilation.

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Checkout web-extension-starter that uses this plugin

Installation

``sh


npm

Version 1.4.0 adds support for webpack 5. Backward compatible with webpack 4 as well.

Usage

`js
// ... other plugins
const WextManifestWebpackPlugin = require("wext-manifest-webpack-plugin");

module.exports = {
entry: {
manifest: './source/manifest.json',
// ...
},

output: {
path: path.join(destPath, targetBrowser),
filename: 'js/[name].js',
},

module: {
rules: [
{
type: 'javascript/auto', // prevent webpack handling json with its own loaders,
test: /manifest\.json$/,
use: 'wext-manifest-loader',
exclude: /node_modules/,
},
]
},

plugins: [
new WextManifestWebpackPlugin(),
// ...
],
};
`

Issues

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label._

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Please file an issue here for bugs, missing documentation, or unexpected behavior.

See Bugs

Linting & TypeScript Config

- Shared Eslint & Prettier Configuration - @abhijithvijayan/eslint-config
- Shared TypeScript Configuration - @abhijithvijayan/tsconfig`

License

MIT © Abhijith Vijayan