js-dxtools / js-dxtools/webpack-validator

Catch duplicate entries

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enhancement
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JavaScript
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Description

Webpack will fail rather messily if you have an entry configuration like this:

{
  app: path.join(__dirname, 'app'),
  style: [
    path.join(__dirname, 'app')
  ],

This leads to

Error: module cannot be added as entry point, because it's already in the bundle

It would be a very good idea to check against this as it can be hard to notice and it's one of those checks we can make.

It would be possible to do something similar against the source too but that would be far harder to pull off and goes beyond the scope of this issue.

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Research direction

Start by locating the webpack entry-configuration validation and reproduce the shown configuration, where app and style resolve to the same path. Done means the validator detects duplicate entries and reports them clearly without attempting to validate duplicate source modules.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, webpack
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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