webpack imports-loader to window.variable

Question

I'm working on a project with jQuery and Angular. Specifically, it relies on Angular loading with window.jQuery so that jqLite is replaced. Here's the relevant line of the Angular library:

jQuery = isUndefined(jqName) ? window.jQuery

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/Angular.js#L1705

My config for Angular looks like this:

loader: "imports-loader?jQuery=jquery,this=>window"

However, it seems that this is undefined in that particular scope:

> console.log(this)
undefined

I also tried this, but it raises a parsing error on the . in webpack.

loader: "imports-loader?window.jQuery=jquery"

Answer 1

Here's the config I found that ended up working for me:

plugins: [
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
        "window.jQuery": "jquery"
    })
]

Source: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/542