Child Process Webpack Plugin

Webpack plugin for starting child processes after each build.

Installation

$ npm install child-process-webpack-plugin

Basic usage

In your webpack.config.js:

const ChildProcessPlugin = require('child-process-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
    // ...
    plugins: [
        new ChildProcessPlugin('echo Hello!')
    ]
    // ...
}

Options

new ChildProcessPlugin(config: array | object | string)

Ideally config is an array of child process configurations. Each config is an object with the following keys:

Key|Type|Default value|Description :---:|:----:|:-------------:|----------- command|String|''|The command to be executed once|Boolean|false|Run the command only after the first build (true makes sense only in watch mode) prefix|String|''|Each line of the process output gets prefixed with this string cwd|String|'.'|Working directory the process will run in env|Object|{PATH:process.env.PATH}|Environment variables for the child process

If config is an object, it's interpreted as an array with a single configuration:

new ChildProcessPlugin([config])

If config is a string, it's interpreted as a single command:

new ChildProcessPlugin([{
    command: config
}])

If you don't like the array syntax, you can create multiple instances:

module.exports = {
    // ...
    plugins: [
        new ChildProcessPlugin(config1),
        new ChildProcessPlugin(config2)
    ]
    // ...
}

Example

For a complete example check the test folder.