automatic-vendor-federation

Utility to enable automatic vendor sharing within bundles using Module Federation

This tool will be part of Webpack 5 core: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/10960

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Install

yarn install @module-federation/automatic-vendor-sharing -D

Usage

There are a few arguments you can pass to the utility.

• exclude : allows you to filter out any packages including part of the string.
• packageJson : pass your apps package.json: eg: require("./package.json");
• ignoreVersion: you can ignore versions on some shared packages. This utility supports versioned dependencies, which is a problem when using React as there can only be one version on the page
• ignorePatchVersion : ignore patch numbers and share dependencies based on a minor version matching. lodash-4.11 instead of lodash-4.11.7
• shareFrom: choose where in package.json the utility should share from. ['dependencies','peerDependencies']/ (default: dependencies)

const AutomaticVendorFederation = require("@module-federation/automatic-vendor-federation");
const { ModuleFederationPlugin } = require("webpack").container;
const packageJson = require("./package.json");
const exclude = ["babel", "plugin", "preset", "webpack", "loader", "serve"];
const ignoreVersion = ["react", "react-dom"];

module.export = {
  //... rest of your config
  plugins: [
    new ModuleFederationPlugin({
      name: "app2",
      library: { type: "var", name: "app2" },
      filename: "remoteEntry.js",
      remotes: {
        app1: "app1",
      },
      exposes: {
        Button: "./src/Button",
      },
      shared: AutomaticVendorFederation({
        exclude,
        ignoreVersion,
        packageJson,
        shareFrom: ["dependencies", "peerDependencies"],
        ignorePatchVersion: true,
      }),
    }),
  ],
};