overriding a method on a global module in webpack

Question

I have something like this in my webpack config:

plugins:[
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ THREE: \'three\' }),
  ...

which makes THREE available

Answer 1

ProvidePlugin just replaces globally the string provided with the instance of the module defined.

new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
        '$': 'jquery',
        '$.each': 'moment'
    })

The above plugin now replaces all instances of $ in your code with the instance of jquery. And in the second case, it replaces $.moment with the instance of moment.

You have to understand that ProvidePlugin simply renames the module to the string you provide and I guess that is kind of an override.