Exclude react from webpack bundle

Question

I\'m trying to exclude react from my bundle which is generated by webpack. Reason being, we have a global version of react available on the page so I\'ll be using that.

Answer 1

You can just create multiple entries to separate react from your application bundle. You can for example do the following, using the webpack CommonsChunkPlugin :

module.exports = {
entry: {
    "app": "your app entry file",
    "react" : "react"
},
plugins: [
    new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin("react", "react.bundle.js")
   ]
}