Passing environment-dependent variables in webpack

Question

I\'m trying to convert an angular app from gulp to webpack. in gulp I use gulp-preprocess to replace some variables in the html page (e.g. database name) depending on the NO

Answer 1

To add to the bunch of answers personally I prefer the following:

const webpack = require('webpack');
const prod = process.argv.indexOf('-p') !== -1;

module.exports = {
  ...
  plugins: [
    new webpack.DefinePlugin({
      process: {
        env: {
          NODE_ENV: prod? `"production"`: '"development"'
        }
      }
    }),
    ...
  ]
};

Using this there is no funky env variable or cross-platform problems (with env vars). All you do is run the normal webpack or webpack -p for dev or production respectively.

Reference: Github issue