decoded-text-loader

A webpack loader to convert text of an unknown encoding into a JavaScript UTF-8 string

Note: This does not produce an webpack-suitable output. This loader must be chained onto another loader which outputs valid JavaScript.

To install

npm install --save-dev decoded-text-loader

To use in webpack

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /_large\.txt$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'file-loader',
            options: {},
          },
          { loader: 'decoded-text-loader' },
        ],
      },
      {
        test: /\.txt$/,
        use: [
          { loader: 'raw-loader' },
          { loader: 'decoded-text-loader' },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
};

This will automatically convert any *_large.txt to use the file-loader so they can be loaded dynamically. All other *.txt files will be loaded using raw-loader so they can be accessed directly.

Caution: webpack loaders are executed in the reverse order to their declaration so whilst the order here looks weird, it is correct.

Notes

webpack handles loading the files into a string for this loader to consume; that string is inspected using jschardet, and then converted into the detected encoding using text-encoding.