webpack-run-command-plugin

Highly configurable way of running shell commands at any stage of a Webpack build

Requirements

• Webpack 4.1.0 or higher
• Node.js 4.0.0 or higher

Installation

npm i --save-dev @radweb/webpack-run-command-plugin

Example

This example runs chmod on the file out/mycompiledbin.sh after Webpack is finished running

const RunCommandPlugin = require('@radweb/webpack-run-command-plugin')
const path = require('path')

module.exports = {
	//...
	plugins: [
		new RunCommandPlugin({
			stage: 'done',
			run: [{
				cmd: 'chmod 755 mycompiledbin.sh',
				opts: {
					cwd: path.join(__dirname, 'out'),
				},
			}],
		}),
	],
	//...
}

Usage

new RunCommandPlugin(opts)

opts is an object that can have the following properties:

property | type | optional | description ----------|------|----------|--------- stage |string; Must be a valid Webpack stage | no | When to run the series of shell commands async | boolean (default: true) | yes | Whether to run the commands asynchronously or not parallel | boolean (default: false) | yes | Whether to run the async commands in parallel or in sequence. If this is set to true, the value of async will be ignored run | Command[] (Array of Command objects) | no | The shell commands to run

Command

An object with the following properties:

property | type | description ---------|------|------------ cmd | string | The shell command to run opts | An object containing options for child_process.exec | Options to customise the execution of the command. Will commonly contain at least cwd