[RFC] Plugins: Build / Pipeline (webpack)

[thescientist13]

Type of Change

• New Feature Request
• Documentation / Website
• Improvement / Suggestion
• Bug
• Other (please clarify below)

Summary

Taken from a comment in #17 (comment) in regards to a general discussion around the API and capturing the specific action item re: build plugin type here.

Details

Build

Basically you can pass a webpack plugin! Mileage may vary, but we could provide a list of known plugins that work in this way. (like ones that we use in our own plugins)

Usage

For a consumer, usage would look something like this in greenwood.config.js where the provider function in this case returns an instance of a webpack plugin.

example:

const { version } = require('package.json');
const webpack = require('webpack');

module.exports = {
  title: 'My App'
  
  ...
  
  plugins: [{
    type: 'build'
    provider: (compilation) => {
      const { config } = compilation;
      
      return new webpack.BannerPlugin({
        banner: `${config.title} v${version}: built on ${new Date().getTime()}`
      });
    }
  ]
}