Absolute paths for webpack

abspath-webpack-plugin is a custom absolute path(s) provider for your webpack builds.

It helps you get rid of relative paths in your requires and imports.

Installation

To install the latest stable version:

npm install --save-dev abspath-webpack-plugin

This assumes you are using npm as your package manager. The abspath-webpack-plugin requires webpack as peerDependency. Thus you are able to specify the required versions accurately.

Usage

Documentation: Using Plugins

Syntax / Config

new AbsolutePathProviderPlugin(newRegEx, absolutePath);

newRegEx is the regular expression to be matched in the required path and gets replaced with the absolutePath provided as the second argument.

You can also append path to the regex in your require statement. It automatically gets appended to the absolutePath.

Apply via webpack config

You need to use abspath-webpack-plugin with other plugins in your webpack configuration.

var webpack = require('webpack');
var AbsolutePathProviderPlugin = require('abspath-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new AbsolutePathProviderPlugin(
      /* regex */, /* absolute path to some dir */
    )
  ]
}

Example

Let's see how can we use the plugin to simplify our require statements.

Here is your simple app structure, let's say.

app/
+-- _webpack.config.js
+-- scripts/
    +-- accounts/
        +-- signup/
            +-- app.js
+-- components/
    +-- modal/
        +-- index.js
        +-- modal.js
    +-- message/
        +-- index.js
        +-- message.js

Now you need to use your modal and message components in scripts/accounts/signup/app.js. The usual way would be

app.js (earlier)

var modal = require('./../../../components/modal');
var message = require('./../../../components/message');

That's not very efficient, right? Let's put abspath-webpack-plugin into play.

webpack.config.js

var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var AbsolutePathProviderPlugin = require('abspath-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new AbsolutePathProviderPlugin(
      /^@components/, path.resolve('./components')
    )
  ]
}

app.js (after webpack config)

var modal = require('@components/modal');
var message = require('@components/message');

Or if you're using ES2015 syntax,

import modal from '@components/modal'
import message from '@components/message'

Contributing

We are open to, and grateful for, any contributions made by the community. You can contribute by:

• Reporting a bug.
• Suggesting a feature.
• Opening an issue to discuss improvements, theory or implementation.

If you are opening a PR, please attach the relevant issue with it. If it doesn't exist, please create one before you open a PR.

License

MIT