GordyD / webpack-entry-override

Demonstration showing oddity when trying to override webpack entry with CLI when option is set as an array

The purpose of this repo is to show an oddity when trying to override webpack entry with CLI when option is set as an array.

Run

To perform the different webpack CLI processes run the following commands.

npm  install
npm run build-ab
npm run build-ab-plus-c
npm run build-ab-without-c

Sample Webpack Configuration

module.exports = {
    entry: [ './lib/a.js', './lib/b.js'],
    output: {
        path: __dirname + "/dist",
        filename: "output-ab.js"
    }
};

NPM Scripts

These are the scripts defined in package.json

{
  "build-ab": "webpack",
  "build-ab-without-c": "webpack --entry ./lib/c.js --output-filename output-ab-without-c.js",
  "build-ab-plus-c": "webpack ./lib/c.js --output-filename output-ab-plus-c.js"
}