CDN with fallback extension for the HTML Webpack Plugin

Enhances html-webpack-plugin functionality by loading all script body tags with fallbackjs.

This is an extension plugin for the webpack plugin html-webpack-plugin (version 4 or higher). It allows you to load javascript files from a cdn and fallback to self hosting if the cdn can't be reached.

This extension is based on the source code of html-webpack-inline-source-plugin.

Installation

You must be running webpack on node 6 or higher.

Install the plugin with npm:

$ npm install --save-dev html-webpack-cdn-fallback-plugin

Basic Usage

Require the plugin in your webpack config:

var HtmlWebpackCdnFallbackPlugin = require('html-webpack-cdn-fallback-plugin');

Add the plugin to your webpack config as follows:

plugins: [
  new HtmlWebpackPlugin(),
  new HtmlWebPackCdnFallbackPlugin(HtmlWebpackPlugin,{cdnUrl: 'https://your-cdn.com/basepath/:version/',})
]  

This will replace all script tags from the body that have a src attribute with one script tag containing calls to fallbackjs.

without plugin:

  <script src='a.js'>
  <script>
    //inline javascript code 
  </script> 
  <script src='b.js'>

with plugin:

  <script src='fallback.min.js'>
  <script>
    //inline javascript code 
  </script> 
  <script>
    fallback.load({
      'a.js': ['https://your-cdn.com/basepath/1.0.0/a.js', '/a.js'],
      'b.js': ['https://your-cdn.com/basepath/1.0.0/b.js', '/b.js'],
    });
  </script> 

Options

cdnUrl

Can be either a string or a function returning a string. :version will be replaced with the veriosn of your package.json. :commit will be replaced with the commit sha of your repository.

Usage with react-app-rewired

config-override.js

const HtmlWebPackCdnFallbackPlugin = require('html-webpack-cdn-fallback-plugin');
module.exports = override(
    function(config) {
        let htmlWebPackPlugin = config.plugins.find(plugin => plugin.constructor.name==='HtmlWebpackPlugin');
        if(htmlWebPackPlugin){
            config.plugins.push(
                new HtmlWebPackCdnFallbackPlugin(htmlWebPackPlugin.constructor,{
                    cdnUrl: 'https://your-cdn.de/basepath/:version/'
                })
            );
        }
        
        return config;
    }
);