rollup-plugin-jscc

Conditional compilation and compile-time variable replacement for Rollup.

rollup-plugin-jscc is not a transpiler, it is a wrapper of jscc, a tiny and powerful, language agnostic file preprocessor that uses JavaScript to transform text based on expressions at compile time.

With jscc, you have:

Conditional inclusion/exclusion of blocks, based on compile-time variables*
Compile-time variables with all the power of JavaScript expressions
Replacement of variables in the sources, by its value at compile-time
Sourcemap support, useful for JavaScript sources.
TypeScript v3 definitions

* This feature allows you the conditional declaration of ES6 imports (See the example).

Since jscc is a preprocessor, rollup-plugin-jscc is implemented as a file loader, so it runs before any transpiler and is invisible to them. This behavior allows you to use it in a wide range of file types but, if necessary, it can be used as a Rollup transformer instead of a loader.

NOTE

v1.0.0 is a complete rewrite and there some changes, please read the specs in jscc wiki.

Also, removal of non-jscc comments is not included, but you can use rollup-plugin-cleanup, which brings compaction and normalization of lines in addition to the conditional removal of JS comments.

Install

npm i rollup-plugin-jscc -D
# or
yarn add rollup-plugin-jscc -D

rollup-plugin-jscc requires node.js v6 or later.

Usage

rollup.config.js

import { rollup } from 'rollup';
import jscc from 'rollup-plugin-jscc';

export default {
  input: 'src/main.js',
  plugins: [
    jscc({
      values: { _APPNAME: 'My App', _DEBUG: 1 },
    }),
  ],
  //...
}

in your source:

/*#if _DEBUG
import mylib from 'mylib-debug';
//#else */
import mylib from 'mylib';
//#endif

mylib.log('Starting $_APPNAME v$_VERSION...');

output:

import mylib from 'mylib-debug';

mylib.log('Starting My App v1.0.0...');

That's it.

* jscc has two predefined memvars: _FILE and _VERSION, in addition to giving access to the environment variables through the nodejs proccess.env object.

Options

Plain JavaScript object, with all properties optional.

Name	Type	Description
escapeQuotes	string	String with the type of quotes to escape in the output of strings: 'single', 'double' or 'both'. Default nothing.
keepLines	boolean	Preserves the empty lines of directives and blocks that were removed. Use this option with `sourceMap:false` if you are interested only in keeping the line numbering. Default `false`
mapHires	boolean	Make a hi-res source-map, if `sourceMap:true` (the default). Default `true`
prefixes	string \| RegExp \| Array<string\|RegExp>	The start of a directive. That is the characters before the '#', usually the start of comments. Default `['//', '/*', '<!--']` (with one optional space after them).
sourcemap	boolean	Must include a sourcemap? Should be the same value as the property `sourcemap` of the Rollup output. Default `true`
values	object	Plain object defining the variables used by jscc during the preprocessing. Default `{}`
extensions	string \| Array<string>	Array of strings that specifies the file extensions to process. Default `['js', 'jsx', 'ts', 'tsx', 'tag']`
include	string \| Array<string>	minimatch or array of minimatch patterns for paths that must be included in the processing.
exclude	string \| Array<string>	minimatch or array of minimatch patterns for paths that should be ignored.

Directives

Please see the jscc wiki to know about directives used by jscc.

What's New

Only CommonJS version with dependency on jscc v1.1.0
The minimum supported version of node.js is 6
The predefined extensions were extended to include those of React and TypeScript.
RegEx and Date values now outputs its literal content in replacements.
Objects containing NaN now outputs NaN in replacements.
Infinite and -Infinity in JSON objects are replaced with Number.MAX_VALUE and Number.MIN_VALUE, respectively.
Added TypeScript v3 definitions.

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