vite-plugin-bundle

Create plugins to improve bundeling external chunks.

Install

npm i --save-dev vite-plugin-bundle # yarn add -D vite-plugin-comlink

What is this plugin?

This plugin is more like a "meta-plugin" that can be used by other plugins. Directly using this Plugin is not possible.

This plugin exports a few things:

1. bundleHelper This returns a SINGLE instance of a plugin that has to be in the vite config EXACTLY once.
2. bundle This is the main function used by other plugins it returns a Promise of a string wich is a filename for a new bundle. This bundle can be inlined (build only); bundled as a iife or module and might have a static filename (use case for that is a serviceWorker). Also the build can be watched (only relevant for iife build).
3. setPluginContext can set the context in wich specific plugins can / should run.
4. inlineURLRevoke A helper to revoke inline URLs after usage.

API

function bundle(
  pluginContext: PluginContext, 
  entry: string, 
  ctx: string, 
  result_type?: "iife" | "module", 
  inline?: boolean, 
  watch_files?: boolean, 
  static_file?: string | false
): Promise<string>;

Specify used plugins

You can set Plugins to run in specific context. Use

setPluginContext(plugin: Plugin, ctx: string[], overwrite = true)

to set the context for a plugin.

ctx is a Array of context-strings. If overwrrite is false the array is appended if there is a config set.

If a plugin doesn't have any setPluginContext applied to it, it is used in all contexts.

HMR

This plugin has not any kind of HMR build into it. I use this plugin for 2 other plugins so that might change if something is needed.