v6.2.0

Changes

Add optional option excludeInProduction, allowing excluding modules from the production bundle:

module.exports = {
  ...
  excludeInProduction: [
    "electron-devtools-installer"
  ]
};

v6.1.0

Changes

Automatically transform lodash imports to support tree shaking.

Dependencies

• Add @swc/plugin-transform-imports
• Update @swc/core to 1.7.42 (patch)
• Update browserslist to 4.24.2 (minor)
• Update eslint to 9.14.0 (major)
• Update eslint-config-arklint to 3.3.0 (major)
• Update html-webpack-plugin to 5.6.3 (patch)
• Update mini-css-extract-plugin to 2.9.2 (patch)
• Update postcss-normalize to 13.0.1 (patch)
• Update postcss-preset-env to 10.0.9 (patch)
• Update sass-loader to 16.0.3 (patch)
• Update webpack to 5.96.1 (minor)

v6.0.3

Changes

Harmonize log messages to make everything clearer and prettier.

v6.0.2

Changes

Always use mode production for main and preloads.

Some libraries (I'm looking at you, ADM-ZIP) seem to be slower when mode is development. Given the sizes of main and preload files, there is no great difference in compilation time between the two modes. NODE_ENV is still set to development, so the compiled files are still not made for production.

v6.0.1

Fixes

• Fix a regression that caused Electron to start before the development server was ready

Changes

• Optimize main and preload files compilation by removing unnecessary plugins and rules

v6.0.0

Features

Add support for ES6 imports on all processes. 🎉

Main and preload files are now compiled even in development, which means CJS require can now be replaced ES6 import on the files of these processes. In order for this to work, main and preload paths have to point to the built files.

package.json

{
  "main": "build/static/js/electron.main.js",
}

Main file

Since the preload file(s) will be compiled both in development and production, you can use a single path for both environment. Built files use the names declared in the configuration file: electron.preload.[name].js

new BrowserWindow({
  webPreferences: {
    // With a preload entry key named `app`
    preload: path.join(__dirname, "electron.preload.app.js"),
  }
});

Breaking changes

Remove support for ESM.

On the previous version, ESM was only supported thanks to a workaround (because I couldn't figure out how to configure webpack and SWC correctly) allowing the ESM equivalent of __dirname to be compiled as a dynamic path . Now that import can be used without ESM, this workaround was removed and so CJS __dirname must be available.

Rebuiltron configuration file must now have the extension .js instead of .cjs.

rebuiltron.config.cjs  --->  rebuiltron.config.js

Dependencies

• Remove string-replace-loader
• Update @pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin to 0.5.15 (patch)
• Update @swc/core to 1.7.26 (minor)
• Update browserslist to 4.23.3 (patch)
• Update css-loader to 7.1.2 (patch)
• Update css-minimizer-webpack-plugin to 7.0.0 (major)
• Update detect-port to 1.6.1 (minor)
• Update eslint-config-arklint to 1.11.0 (minor)
• Update mini-css-extract-plugin to 2.9.1 (patch)
• Update postcss-normalize to 13.0.0 (major)
• Update postcss-preset-env to 10.0.3 (major)
• Update react-refresh to 0.14.2 (patch)
• Update sass-loader to 16.0.1 (major)
• Update webpack to 5.94.0 (minor)
• Update webpack-dev-server to 5.1.0 (minor)

v5.0.0

Breaking changes

Imports from ICSS :export should now be named, see css-loader's major release 7.0.0.

Migration guide

Before:

import styles from "./styles.css";
console.log(styles.myClass);

After:

import * as styles from "./styles.css";
console.log(styles.myClass);

// or

import { myClass } from "./styles.css";
console.log(myClass);

Dependencies

• Update @swc/core to 1.4.16 (patch)
• Update css-loader to 7.1.1 (major)
• Update mini-css-extract-plugin to 2.9.0 (minor)
• Update postcss-preset-env to 9.5.6 (patch)
• Update sass-loader to 14.2.1 (minor)
• Update style-loader to 4.0.0 (major)

v4.1.0

Changes

Remove electron folder requirement in folder structure: main and preload files can now be placed anywhere.

v4.0.1

Dependencies

• Update @swc/core to v1.4.11 (patch)
• Update browserslist to 4.23.0 (minor)
• Update eslint to 8.57.0 (minor)
• Update eslint-config-arklint to 1.5.0 (minor)
• Update mini-css-extract-plugin to 2.8.1 (patch)
• Update postcss to 8.4.38 (patch)
• Update postcss-loader to 8.1.1 (patch)
• Update postcss-preset-env to 9.5.2 (minor)
• Update sass-loader to 14.1.1 (patch)
• Update webpack to 5.91.0 (minor)
• Update webpack-dev-server to 5.0.4 (patch)

v4.0.0

Features

With added support for ESM on Electron v28.0.0, Rebuiltron now also supports ESM apps. 🎉

Breaking changes

Rebuiltron configuration file must now have the extension .cjs instead of .js.

rebuiltron.config.js  --->  rebuiltron.config.cjs

Dependencies

• Add string-replace-loader
• Update @swc/core to 1.3.107 (patch)
• Update browserslist to 4.22.3 (patch)
• Update html-webpack-plugin to 5.6.0 (minor)
• Update mini-css-extract-plugin to 2.8.0 (minor)
• Update postcss to 8.4.33 (patch)
• Update swc-loader to 0.2.4 (patch)
• Update webpack to 5.90.1 (patch)