DllPlugin

The DllPlugin is used in a separate rspack configuration exclusively to create a dll-only-bundle.

Options

type DllPluginOptions = {
  context?: string;
  entryOnly?: boolean;
  format?: boolean;
  name?: string;
  path: string;
  type?: string;
};

Name	Type	Default	Description
`context`	`string`	The rspack compiler context	context of requests in the manifest file
`path`	`string`	undefined	absolute path to the manifest json file
`entryOnly`	`boolean`	`true`	if `true`, only entry points will be exposed
`format`	`boolean`	undefined	Whether or not format manifest json
`name`	`string`	undefined	The expose dll function name
`type`	`string`	undefined	type of the dll bundle

new rspack.DllPlugin({
  path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'manifest.json'),
  name: '[name]_dll_lib',
});

The Plugin will create a manifest.json which is written to the given path. It contains mappings from require and import requests to module ids.

The manifest.json is used by the DllReferencePlugin

Combine this plugin with output.library options to expose the dll function.

This page is adapted from webpack documentation under the CC BY 4.0, with modifications.