Create-react-app: Provide require() in console

[gaearon]

We should figure out a way to provide a global require() in DEV mode in the browser console.
It could be implemented as a webpack plugin (everything is a plugin in webpack right?)

It could work like this:

• For modules with unique names, require('moduleName') just works
• For modules with non-unique names, require('./full/path/from/root') is the only way

Still not too bad!

[eanplatter]

What is the use case for this? So I can go to my dev tools console and access a module? That would be helpful, I'd like to dig into it.

[gaearon]

Yea, it's for debugging individual modules when something specific doesn't quite work, and you want to call it directly.

[eanplatter]

This is freaking handy indeed!

[vjeux]

You can try it out on facebook.com fyi, it's super useful for debugging

[gaearon]

Closing for a lack of a specific proposal. It’s not clear how this would work with relative imports so unless somebody prototypes this, I likely won’t be working on it.