How to inject Webpack build hash to application code

Question

I\'m using Webpack\'s [hash] for cache busting locale files. But I also need to hard-code the locale file path to load it from browser. Since the file path is altered with [

Answer 1

You can pass the version to your build using webpack.DefinePlugin

If you have a package.json with a version, you can extract it like this:

const version = require("./package.json").version;

For example (we stringified the version):

new webpack.DefinePlugin({
    'process.env.VERSION': JSON.stringify(version)
}),

then in your javascript, the version will be available as:

process.env.VERSION