npm-install-webpack-plugin

Speed up development by automatically installing & saving dependencies with Webpack.

Features

• Works with both Webpack ^v1.12.0 and ^2.1.0-beta.0.
• Auto-installs .babelrc plugins & presets.
• Supports both ES5 & ES6 Modules. (e.g. require, import)
• Supports Namespaced packages. (e.g. @cycle/dom)
• Supports Dot-delimited packages. (e.g. lodash.capitalize)
• Supports CSS imports. (e.g. @import "~bootstrap")
• Supports Webpack loaders. (e.g. babel-loader, file-loader, etc.)
• Supports inline Webpack loaders. (e.g. require("bundle?lazy!./App")
• Auto-installs missing peerDependencies. (e.g. @cycle/core will automatically install rx@*)
• Supports Webpack's resolve.alias & resolve.root configuration. (e.g. require("react") can alias to react-lite)

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Why?

It sucks to Ctrl-C your build script & server just to install a dependency you didn't know you needed until now.

Instead, use require or import how you normally would and npm install will happen automatically to install & save missing dependencies while you work!

Installation

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

Usage

In your webpack.config.js:

plugins: [
  new NpmInstallPlugin(),
],

If you have an .npmrc file in your project, those arguments will be used:

save=true
save-exact=true

Alternatively, you can provide your own arguments to npm install:

plugins: [
  new NpmInstallPlugin({
    ...
    cacheMin: 999999  // --cache-min=999999 (prefer NPM cached version)
    registry: "..."   // --registry="..."
    save: true,       // --save
    saveDev: true,    // --save-dev
    saveExact: true,  // --save-exact
    ...
  }),
],

License

MIT License 2016 © Eric Clemmons