Shareable Configs

[jhanikhilnath]

Feature request

What is the expected behavior?
Having shareable configs

What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?
We have to write webpack configs every time we start a new big project. Which is usually twice or thrice a year. So, having shareable configs would be very useful.

How should this be implemented in your opinion?
Just like in eslint

module.exports = {
  extends: ["shareable config name"]
}

Are you willing to work on this yourself?
No. I don't have the skills for it. I am a learning developer

P.S: My english is not very good as it is not my first language

[alexander-akait]

Please use this package to achieve this https://github.com/survivejs/webpack-merge. Also you can publish package (common configuration) and require/import it in your new package. Webpack configuration can be complex and there is no single strategy on how best to do it - some options better to merge, other to override.

[alexander-akait]

@webpack/cli-team what do you think?

[snitin315]

I think the same behavior can be achieved through --merge. But if we want it to be an option in config we will need to update webpack schema.

[alexander-akait]

Yep, right direction, In theory we can require/import from extends and apply webpack-merge, we don't need update schema, because we remove extends from webpack.config.js internally, we need update only types, but it is not hard

[snitin315]

Sounds good 👍🏻 , I will send a PR.

[alexander-akait]

@snitin315 Don't forget extended configuration can have extends too, so we need do it in loop until we have extends

[snitin315]

Thanks for the point. I will keep that in mind 👍🏻

[jhanikhilnath]

I am very confused as to what is happening as this is my first issue in github
Can someone summarise everything

[snitin315]

Can someone summarise everything

We will implement this feature request in the near future 😄

[jhanikhilnath]

Seriously I can’t believe that my first feature request on github is being implemented

[arzyu]

@jhanikhilnath I created a tool that can meet your needs. arzyu/airpack

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