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Donald T
Donald T

Reputation: 10647

Include external JavaScript file in Node-Gulp-Webpack build

I have an app built with Node-Gulp-Webpack.

I have an external JavaScript file external.js that is not local to my app, but I want to be able to require it in my app. This file is on a path for which there is an environment variable named MY_PATH.

How can I include this external.js as-is in my build without making a Node module out of it?

So far, this does not work and doesn't return a useful error message:

var external = require(process.env.MY_PATH + '/external.js');

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1325

Answers (1)

Roy
Roy

Reputation: 4464

Use gulp-remote-src, the example:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var remoteSrc = require('gulp-remote-src');

gulp.task('remote', function() { 
    remoteSrc(['app.js', 'jquery.js'], {
        base: 'http://myapps.com/assets/',
    })
    .pipe(uglify())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist/'));
})

Upvotes: 1

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