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yigal
yigal

Reputation: 4715

Make webpack download react from cdn?

I have a simple react project that uses webpack. When calling npm run build it creates a collection of files that needs to be uploaded to the webserver to become available to the public.

My question is: is there way to instruct webpack to produce a distribution that downloads the react.js from some official react cdn?

the goal is to make my website download faster if users already have react in their browser cache

Upvotes: 0

Views: 489

Answers (1)

Siri
Siri

Reputation: 1126

Use Webpack externals for this.

Like the documentation says:

The externals configuration option provides a way of excluding dependencies from the output bundles. Instead, the created bundle relies on that dependency to be present in the consumer's environment.

module.exports = {
  //...
  externals: [
    {
      react: 'react',
    }

  ]
};

And put the link to the latest react in the html page. Works fine.

Upvotes: 3

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