Webpack /电子要求动态模块

Question

I'd like to require a module on a folder, as a plugin. So I want the user to be able to add JavaScript files into an already compiled electron/webpack application and having my application load and execute it. So it would be like a plugin system. I have tried requiring every file inside the plugins/ folder but it turns out that it just gets bundled into bundle.js when compiled, and I want to be able to change it after compiled, like a plugin. How can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

I think what you're looking for is global.require as stated in this similar question .

Note that as it's Node's require , it will cache required module, so modifying a plugin's code will not have effect until you restart your electron application so that it does call global.require again. If that is an issue, you can force-reload a specific module with this (unrecommended) snippet:

delete global.require.cache[global.require.resolve(moduleName)]