custom webpack configuration + qunit testing

[MichaelS86]

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On the webpage https://docs.nativescript.org/tooling/custom-webpack-configuration there is a detailed description on how to use a separate webpack-config-file for custom issues. (At least) When using QUnit, there is also a karma.conf.js-file that loads the webpack-config, which might also be adapted. A description on issues regarding karma.conf.js when using a custom webpack configuration, however, is missing.

In my recent exemplary case, I made use of dotenv in the webpack-configuration. The expected environment variables, however, were not available during testing, since the testing framework still made use of the standard webpack-config-file. It took me some time to find the reason for that.