lodash-ts-webpack-plugin

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Overview

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Transforms lodash function imports into sub-modules imports, which allows for a tree-shaking.

It transforms from:

import { debounce } from 'lodash';

to:

import debounce from 'lodash/debounce';

before the source code is being taken through the typescript compiler.

This way webpack 2 will be able to only include the code that's being actually used.

Installation

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1. Install the package:

$ npm install lodash-ts-webpack-plugin --save-dev

Usage

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In your webpack.config.js add the lodash-ts-webpack-plugin preloader:

// ...
module: {
    rules: [
        {
            test: /\.ts$/,
            loader: 'lodash-ts-webpack-plugin',
            exclude: /node_modules/,
            enforce: 'pre'
        },
        // ...
    ],
    // ...
}
// ...

Now somewhere in your main.ts typescript file add an ES6 import for lodash:

import { debounce } from 'lodash';
// make sure you have this line as well otherwise you're not using the import member
// and the lodash code will not be included in the bundle
console.log(debounce); 

run webpack bundling and check your bundle size.

Update the code to:

import { debounce, zip } from 'lodash';
// make sure you have this lines as well otherwise you're not using the import members
// and the lodash code will not be included in the bundle
console.log(debounce); 
console.log(zip); 

run webpack bundling and check your bundle size.
This time the bundle size should be larger.

Links

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NPM:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-ts-webpack-plugin
GITHUB:
https://github.com/impankratov/lodash-ts-webpack-plugin.git

Authors

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Eduard Fidiles

• github/efidiles
• twitter/efidiles

Ivan Pankratov

• github/impankratov
• twitter/impankratov

License

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Released under the MIT license.

Copyright © 2017, Eduard Fidiles, Ivan Pankratov