vite-plugin-raw-assets

Vite plugin to load assets as strings.

Usefull to deal with third-party libraries that expect to import assets as strings but doesn't add ?raw to import URL.

It's similar to raw-loader in Webpack.

Why vite-plugin-raw-assets

Suppose we have a library called some-lib with the following import:

import refreshSvgstr from './style/icons/refresh.svg';

The library expect refreshSvgstr to be a string but vite will assign the asset URL.

This plugin helps to deal with this situation.

Requirements

This plugin requires an LTS Node version (v16.0.0+) and Vite v3.0.0+.

Install

npm i vite-plugin-raw-assets -D

Usage

vite.config.ts

import rawAssets from 'vite-plugin-raw-assets';

export default {
  plugins: [
    rawAssets({
      include: '**/some-lib/**/*.svg'
    }),
  ],
}

Considerations

This plugin only work on assets. It uses assetsInclude to decide if a file is an asset or not.

Options

rawAssets(config: Configuration)

export interface Configuration {
  /**
   * Options passed to @rollup/pluginutils's createFilter.
   * The plugin only load files that pass the created filter.
   *
   * See https://github.com/rollup/plugins/tree/master/packages/pluginutils#include-and-exclude
   */
  include?: String | RegExp | Array[...String|RegExp]
  exclude?: String | RegExp | Array[...String|RegExp]
}