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babel-plugin-remove-react-element
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Removes elements from the source code. Useful when generating multiple bundles.
This Babel plugin can be used to remove every usage of a
react
component from code. Used withwebpack
, this can be used to create a bundle for a mobile website and a desktop website.
npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-remove-react-element
.babelrc
(Recommended).babelrc
{
"plugins": [
["remove-react-element", { "elementNames": ["Desktop"] }]
]
}
require("@babel/core").transform("code", {
"plugins": [
["remove-react-element", { "elementNames": ["Desktop"] }]
]
});
In
class MyPage extends Component {
render() {
return <div>
<Desktop>
This will show on desktops.
</Desktop>
<Mobile>
This will show on mobile.
</Mobile>
</div>
}
}
Out
class MyPage extends Component {
render() {
return <div>
{null}
<Mobile>
This will show on mobile.
</Mobile>
</div>
}
}
Consider the following react
component... The code below can be compiled and bundled without remove-react-element
. The resulting bundle would be a valid responsive website.
import MediaQuery from 'react-responsive';
import React, { Component } from 'react';
//The markup wrapped inside the <Desktop/> tag will only show
// if the width of the page is lower than 1224px.
class Desktop extends Component {
render() {
return <MediaQuery query="(min-device-width: 1224px)">
{ this.props.children }
</MediaQuery>;
}
}
//The markup wrapped inside the <Mobile/> tag will only show
// if the width of the page is lower than 1224px.
class Mobile extends Component {
render() {
return <MediaQuery query="(max-device-width: 1224px)">
{ this.props.children }
</MediaQuery>;
}
}
export class MyPage extends Component {
render() {
return <div>
<Desktop>
This will show on desktops.
</Desktop>
<Mobile>
This will show on mobile.
</Mobile>
</div>
}
}
But you might have a requirement to generate a smaller bundle for mobile devices. This bundle would not need to contain the markup related to desktop. This can be achieved with remove-react-element
.
To achieve this, you can configure webpack as followed.
const webpack = require('webpack');
const path = require('path');
const UglifyJSPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
...
module: {
rules: [
{
include: [
path.resolve('./src')
],
use: [
{
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
plugins: [
[
"remove-react-element",
{ "elementNames": ["Desktop"] }
]
]
}
}
]
}
]
},
plugins: [
new UglifyJSPlugin({
uglifyOptions: {
beautify: true,
ecma: 6,
compress: true,
comments: false
}
})
]
};
Once the plugin remove-react-element
has removed all the usages of the Desktop
components,
uglifyjs
will remove all the dead code... so all the unused components should be removed
from the bundle.
FAQs
Removes elements from the source code. Useful when generating multiple bundles.
The npm package babel-plugin-remove-react-element receives a total of 220 weekly downloads. As such, babel-plugin-remove-react-element popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that babel-plugin-remove-react-element demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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