JsonMinimizerWebpackPlugin

This plugin uses JSON.stringify() to minify your JSON.

Getting Started

To begin, you'll need to install json-minimizer-webpack-plugin:

$ npm install json-minimizer-webpack-plugin --save-dev

Then add the plugin to your webpack configuration. For example:

webpack.config.js

const JsonMinimizerPlugin = require('json-minimizer-webpack-plugin');
const CopyPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.json/i,
        type: 'javascript/auto',
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'file-loader',
            options: {
              name: '[name].[ext]',
            },
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
  plugins: [
    new CopyPlugin({
      patterns: [
        {
          context: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
          from: './src/*.json',
        },
      ],
    }),
  ],
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      // For webpack@5 you can use the `...` syntax to extend existing minimizers (i.e. `terser-webpack-plugin`), uncomment the next line
      // `...`
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin(),
    ],
  },
};

This will enable JSON optimization only in production mode. If you want to run it also in development set the optimization.minimize option to true.

And run webpack via your preferred method.

Options

test

Type: String|RegExp|Array<String|RegExp> - default: /\.json(\?.*)?$/i

Test to match files against.

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        test: /\.foo\.json/i,
      }),
    ],
  },
};

include

Type: String|RegExp|Array<String|RegExp> Default: undefined

Files to include.

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        include: /\/includes/,
      }),
    ],
  },
};

exclude

Type: String|RegExp|Array<String|RegExp> Default: undefined

Files to exclude.

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        exclude: /\/excludes/,
      }),
    ],
  },
};

cache

⚠ Ignored in webpack 5! Please use https://webpack.js.org/configuration/other-options/#cache.

Type: Boolean|String Default: true

Enable file caching. Default path to cache directory: node_modules/.cache/json-minimizer-webpack-plugin.

Boolean

Enable/disable file caching.

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        cache: true,
      }),
    ],
  },
};

String

Enable file caching and set path to cache directory.

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        cache: 'path/to/cache',
      }),
    ],
  },
};

cacheKeys

⚠ Ignored in webpack 5! Please use https://webpack.js.org/configuration/other-options/#cache.

Type: Function<(defaultCacheKeys, file) -> Object> Default: defaultCacheKeys => defaultCacheKeys

Allows you to override default cache keys.

Default cache keys:

({
  'json-minimizer-webpack-plugin': require('../package.json').version, // plugin version
  'json-minimizer-webpack-plugin-options': this.options, // plugin options
  nodeVersion: process.version, // Node.js version
  assetName: file, // asset path
  contentHash: crypto.createHash('md4').update(input).digest('hex'), // source file hash
});

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        cache: true,
        cacheKeys: (defaultCacheKeys, file) => {
          defaultCacheKeys.myCacheKey = 'myCacheKeyValue';

          return defaultCacheKeys;
        },
      }),
    ],
  },
};

minimizerOptions

Type: Object Default: { replacer: null, space: null }

JSON.stringify() options.

module.exports = {
  optimization: {
    minimize: true,
    minimizer: [
      new JsonMinimizerPlugin({
        minimizerOptions: {
          space: '\t',
        },
      }),
    ],
  },
};

Contributing

Please take a moment to read our contributing guidelines if you haven't yet done so.

CONTRIBUTING

License

MIT