suppress chunks webpack plugin

This plugin is intended to suppress webpack chunks.

Install

npm i -D suppress-chunks-webpack-plugin

Usage

Here's how to suppress the chunks generated by the entry points one and foo

var SuppressChunksPlugin = require('suppress-chunks-webpack-plugin');
 
module.exports = {
  ...
 
  entry: {
    one: './file.js',
    foo: './foo.js',
    bar: './bar.js',
    main: './index.js',
  },
 
  output: {
    path: path.join(__dirname, '/dist')),
    filename: '[name].js',
  },
 
  plugins: [
    ...
 
    new SuppressChunksPlugin(['one', 'foo']);
  ]
}
 

Filtering out specific files

If you have a chunk that produces multiple output files e.g. if you're using something like extract-text-webpack-plugin to generate a .css file, you can filter out specific files in the chunk to suppress. Simply add an object instead of a string into the array: { name: string, match: regexp }

// one.js
require('./one.css');

This would suppress one.js, but not one.css

var SuppressChunksPlugin = require('suppress-chunks-webpack-plugin');
 
module.exports = {
  ...
  
  entry: {
    one: './one.js',
    foo: './foo.js',
    bar: './bar.js',
    main: './index.js',
  },
 
  output: {
    path: path.join(__dirname, '/dist')),
    filename: '[name].js',
  },
  
  module: {
    loaders: [{
      ...,
      
      loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract(
        'style-loader',
        'css-loader',
    }],
  },
 
  plugins: [
    ...
    new ExtractTextPlugin('[name].css'),
 
    new SuppressChunksPlugin([
      { name: 'one', match: /\.js$/ },
      'foo',
      'bar',
    ]);
  ]

Filtering out specific patterns

If you want to filter out a pattern for all of your chunks, you can pass in an options object as the second parameter:

new SuppressChunksPlugin([
  'one',
  'two',
  'foo',
  'bar',
  { name: 'file', match: /\.css$/ },
  // entries passed in with a match field have priority over the options object.
], { filter: /\.js$/ });