require with expression not passed to externals function

I use webpack for Node projects and want to require JSON files with Nodes native require.

This works:

  // in order to ignore built-in modules like path, fs, etc.
  target: 'node',
  externals: [
    // require json files with nodes built-in require logic
    function(context, request, callback) {
      if (/\.json$/.test(request)) {
        callback(null, 'commonjs ' + request);
      } else {
        callback();
      }
    },
    // in order to ignore all modules in node_modules folder
    WebpackNodeExternals()
  ],

require('./package.json');

But this doesn’t work:

require(path.join(process.cwd(), 'package.json'));

It seems it isn’t passed to function(context, request, callback). I only get this:

WARNING in ./src/index.ts
Critical dependencies:
44:27-86 the request of a dependency is an expression
 @ ./src/index.ts 44:27-86

[valleykid]

I also have a use case for this. I think it can be solved like this:

// ./src/require.js
module.exports = require;

// ./src/app.js
import requirex from './require';
...
requirex(path.join(process.cwd(), 'package.json'));

// webpack.config.js
{
     ...
     module: {
          noParse: /require.js$/,
          ...
     }
}

This way worked for me, suggest you have a try. Good luck~

[webpack-bot]

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