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html-inline-script-webpack-plugin
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A webpack plugin for converting external script files to inline script block. Requires 'html-webpack-plugin' to work.
A webpack plugin for converting external script files <script src="app.js"></script> to inline script block <script>...</script>. Requires html-webpack-plugin to work.
Inspired by react-dev-utils created by Facebook.
npm i html-inline-script-webpack-plugin -D
yarn add html-inline-script-webpack-plugin -D
npm i html-inline-script-webpack-plugin@^1 -D
yarn add html-inline-script-webpack-plugin@^1 -D
By default, the plugin will convert all the external script files to inline script block.
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlInlineScriptPlugin = require('html-inline-script-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [new HtmlWebpackPlugin(), new HtmlInlineScriptPlugin()],
};
Below are lists of options supported by this plugin:
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| scriptMatchPattern | List of script files that should be processed and inject as inline script. This will be filtered using the output file name. | RegExp[] |
| htmlMatchPattern | List of HTML template files that should be processed by this plugin. Useful when you have multiple html-webpack-plugin initialized. This will be filtered using the options?.filename provided by html-webpack-plugin. | RegExp[] |
Here are some examples illustrating how to use these options:
runtime~ and app~const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlInlineScriptPlugin = require('html-inline-script-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin(),
new HtmlInlineScriptPlugin({
scriptMatchPattern: [/runtime~.+[.]js$/, /app~.+[.]js$/],
}),
],
};
index.htmlconst HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlInlineScriptPlugin = require('html-inline-script-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: 'index.html',
template: 'static/index.webos.html',
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: 'page2.html',
template: 'page2.html',
}),
new HtmlInlineScriptPlugin({
htmlMatchPattern: [/index.html$/],
}),
],
};
runtime~ and app~ and inject only to index.htmlconst HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlInlineScriptPlugin = require('html-inline-script-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = {
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: 'index.html',
template: 'static/index.webos.html',
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: 'page2.html',
template: 'page2.html',
}),
new HtmlInlineScriptPlugin({
scriptMatchPattern: [/runtime~.+[.]js$/, /app~.+[.]js$/],
htmlMatchPattern: [/index.html$/],
}),
],
};
FAQs
A webpack plugin for converting external script files to inline script block. Requires 'html-webpack-plugin' to work.
The npm package html-inline-script-webpack-plugin receives a total of 37,743 weekly downloads. As such, html-inline-script-webpack-plugin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that html-inline-script-webpack-plugin 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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