Conditional build based on environment using Webpack

Question

I have some things for development - e.g mocks which I would like to not bloat my distributed build file with.

In RequireJS you can pass a config in a plugin file an

Answer 1

Not sure why the "webpack.DefinePlugin" answer is the top one everywhere for defining Environment based imports/requires.

The problem with that approach is that you are still delivering all those modules to the client -> check with webpack-bundle-analyezer for instance. And not reducing your bundle.js's size at all :)

So what really works well and much more logical is: NormalModuleReplacementPlugin

So rather than do a on_client conditional require -> just not include not needed files to the bundle in the first place

Hope that helps