hard-bindings-loader

hard-bindings-loader

A webpack loader for node addon modules that handles the recommended require("bindings")("myaddon.node") pattern.

Very early, use at your own risk, but feedback welcome!

Usage

No options at the moment, always emits all .node files directly in the output directory.

// webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
  externals: [
    // Don't try to pack referenced .node files
    function(context, request, callback) {
      if (/\.node$/.test(request)) {
        return callback(null, `commonjs ${request}`);
      }
      return callback();
    },
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      // ...
      // Rewrites and emits
      {
        test: /\.m?js$/,
        loader: "hard-bindings-loader",
      },
    ],
  },
};

In theory this should also work well chained with 'node-loader' to bundle the binary into the JS bundle, but I haven't tried.

Behavior

Recognizes require('bindings')('foo.node'), uses (roughly) require('bindings')({ path: true, bindings: 'foo.node' }) to get the built addon module, re-writes the require to require('./foo.node'), and emits the referenced file at that relative path.

Should also handle require('bindings')({ bindings: 'foo.node', ... }), including with path: true to just get the path, but that has even less testing than the rest of this module.

No options are supported yet, in theory this should support most everything file-loader does to control the .node file output.