val-loader

Val Loader

Provides data to another loader

Install

npm i val-loader --save

Usage

var a = require("val-loader!./file.js");
// => excute file.js while compiling and 
//    take the result as javascript code for including

Don't forget to polyfill require if you want to use it in node. See webpack documentation.

The excution of file.js has polyfill already applied.

Provide data for another loader:

require("css-loader!val-loader!./generateCss.js");

Maintainers

Juho Vepsäläinen

Joshua Wiens

Kees Kluskens

Sean Larkin

Changelog

1.0.0 (2017-03-16)

Features

• change expected module API (caf2aab)

BREAKING CHANGES

• this commit introduces a major refactoring of the loader.
• remove node 0.10 and node 0.12 support
• the loaded module must now export a function
• this function will be called with the loader options
• this function must return an object with this structure

Property | Type | Description :--------|:-----|:----------- code | string|Buffer | Required. The code that is passed to the next loader or to webpack. sourceMap | SourceMap | Optional. Will be pased to the next loader or to webpack. ast | any | Optional. An Abstract Syntax Tree that will be passed to the next loader. Useful to speed up the build time if the next loader uses the same AST. dependencies | Array<string> | Default: []. An array of absolute, native paths to file dependencies that need to be watched for changes. cacheable | boolean | Default: false. Flag whether the code can be re-used in watch mode if none of the dependencies have changed.

• the function may also return a promise for async results
• switch tooling to webpack-defaults