esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified

esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified

A esbuild plugin to replace __fileLastModified__ with the actual time the file has been modified.

Why

Avoid having to manually change the the last time the file was modified everytime you make an edit.

Install

npm install esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified

Usage

import esbuild from 'esbuild'
import fileLastModified from 'esbuild-plugin-filelastmodified'

esbuild.build({
  ...,
  plugins: [
    fileLastModified()
  ]
})

Before

const fileLastModified = __fileLastModified__

After

const fileLastModified = 16165180636939285e-4 // unix date time

Options

The plugin accepts the following options as first argument

identifier

By default the identifier is __fileLastModified__. If you have different requirements you can always pass another identifier to be used instead.

ex: fileLastModified({ identifier: '__FILE_LAST_MODIFIED__' })