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string-replace-webpack4-plugin
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var StringReplacePlugin = require("string-replace-webpack4-plugin");
module.exports = {
module: {
loaders: [
// configure replacements for file patterns
{
test: /index.html$/,
loader: StringReplacePlugin.replace({
replacements: [
{
pattern: /<!-- @secret (\w*?) -->/ig,
replacement: function (match, p1, offset, string) {
return secrets.web[p1];
}
}
]})
}
]
},
plugins: [
// an instance of the plugin must be present
new StringReplacePlugin()
]
}
This allows for arbitrary strings to be replaced as part of the module build process. The original intent is to replace API keys in modules prior to deployment.
StringReplacePlugin.replace([nextLoaders: string], options, [prevLoaders: string])
nextLoaders loaders to follow the replacementoptions
replacements disables the plugin
pattern a regex to match against the file contentsreplacement an ECMAScript string replacement functionprevLoaders loaders to apply prior to the replacementFAQs
Replace string tokens in the contents of a file.
We found that string-replace-webpack4-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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