I am building a bundle of ReactJS files with Webpack.
Is it possible to detect inside of JSX files which Webpack mode is being used: "none", "development", or "production"?
For example, I would like some console.log() statements and global variables in development mode but not production.
One can build the Webpack bundle for development with:
$ npx webpack --config webpack.config.js --mode=development
and for production with:
$ npx webpack --config webpack.config.js --mode=production
To know whether the current build is in development mode or production mode, webpack.DefinePlugin() should be used in webpack.config.js:
const webpack = require('webpack');
module.exports = (env, argv) => {
return {
// other directives...
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
PRODUCTION: JSON.stringify(argv.mode === 'production'),
}),
],
}
};
Then in the bundled JavaScript files one can have this checking:
if (PRODUCTION) {
console.log("This is a production build.");
} else {
console.log("This is a development build.");
}
Note that PRODUCTION here will work not as a global variable, but as a template variable resolved to true or false.