webpack plugin: proxy-switch-plugin

Foreword

When we developing some big project base on webpack, we may face the embrassing situation of slowly restarting the project to switch proxy so than we could test with different backend. To handle this problem, I wrote this plugin: proxy-switch-plugin

Getting Started

// npm
npm i proxy-switch-plugin -D

//yarn
yarn add proxy-switch-plugin -D

Usage

Config

In webpack：

const ProxySwitchPlugin = require("proxy-switch-plugin");
module.exports = {
  // ...
  plugins: [
    new ProxySwitchPlugin({
      // write down all you proxy config
      proxyList: {
        peter: {
          "/api": {
            target: "http://localhost:3000",
            pathRewrite: {
              "/api": "/",
            },
          },
        },
        park: {
          "/api": {
            target: "http://localhost:3001",
            pathRewrite: {
              "/api": "/",
            },
          },
        },
      },
      // the default proxy config key
      defaultProxy: "park",
      // watch config change
      watchPath: path.join(__dirname, "webpack.config.js"),
    }),
  ],
  // ...
};

In chainWebpack：

const ProxySwitchPlugin = require("proxy-switch-plugin");
module.exports = {
  // ...
  chainWebpack: (config) => {
    config.plugin("proxy-switch-plugin").use(ProxySwitchPlugin, [
      {
        // write down all you proxy config
        proxyList: {
          peter: {
            "/api": {
              target: "http://localhost:3000",
              pathRewrite: {
                "/api": "/",
              },
            },
          },
          park: {
            "/api": {
              target: "http://localhost:3001",
              pathRewrite: {
                "/api": "/",
              },
            },
          },
        },
        // the default proxy config key
        defaultProxy: "park",
        // watch config change
        watchPath: path.join(__dirname, "vue.config.js"),
      },
    ]);
  },
  // ...
};

Note: You should not config webpack.devServer.proxy after you use this plugin. And you should config the proxy like the example do which is the classic format in webpack. If you use other format, the plugin dosen't promise to work.

Proxy Switch

The plugin provide a default select component. For example, you could use it like this in React:

import ProxySelect from "proxy-switch-plugin/src/ProxySelect";
import "proxy-switch-plugin/src/ProxySelect.css";

function Index() {
  useEffect(() => {
    document.querySelector(".container").appendChild(ProxySelect);
  }, []);

  return <div className="container"></div>;
}

Put the select component on the place properly. Switch the proxy by select different proxy key in the select component.

Of course, the default select component is written by html select component. The style may not satisfy you. But you could do this work youself. The plugin provide two interface to help switch proxy:

get proxy list

• url: /proxy/list
• method: GET
• res: {list: string[]}

switch proxy

• url: /proxy/change
• params: {proxy: string}
• method: GET

Config Hot Update(Experimental)

By delivering the webpack config file path from the watchPath option, we could update our proxy config without restarting the server and just a fast refresh of the page.

Notice：This is a experimental feature. Only little test have made on typical webpack config. chainWebpack config have never test yet. Please use it carefully.

Last But Not Least

If the plugin helps you, don't forget to star.