runtime-dependency-modules-plugin v1.0.1

runtime-dependency-modules-plugin

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• Notes
• Contribution

Introduction

This module was created to help those who want to know what modules are really used by their front end application at the runtime. Knowing that node_modules is the heaviest object in the universe, this plugin will copy ONLY the modules that the application need.

Installation

The webpack module is needed only as a dev dependency as it will not be used during production.

npm i -D runtime-dependency-modules-plugin

Worth to mention that you need to make a custom webpack config to add a plugin for the compilation process. Please refer to the documentation related to your library / framework on how to make a custom webpack config.

Usage

As simple as it may look :

const runTimeDependencyModulesPlugin = require('runtime-dependency-modules-plugin');

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        new runTimeDependencyModulesPlugin({
            destination : 'dependency-modules'
        })
    ]
};

You can also add some log if you need to check which file is copied from node_modules into your destination module:

new runTimeDependencyModulesPlugin({
    destination : 'dependency-modules',
    log : {
        filePath: 'runtime-dependency-modules-plugin.log',
        level: 'info'
    }
})

At the end of your build, you will find a file at the root of the project that will contains all what the plugin did.

Notes

This module was highly inspired from the sonatype module sonatype-nexus-community

The sonatype module does not support AOT build therefore I decided to change the behavior of the plugin and seeing all the changes that was done, it was better to create a separate project.

Contribution

Feel free to contibute to this project as I have no plan for it except using it as is.