DeprecationWarning: Compilation.assets in webpack v5

[sw1tchdev]

Hello, thanks for plugin. When i tried to using handlebars-webpack-plugin with webpack v5, bundler shows a deprecation warning:

[DEP_WEBPACK_COMPILATION_ASSETS] DeprecationWarning: Compilation.assets will be frozen in future, all modifications are deprecated.
BREAKING CHANGE: No more changes should happen to Compilation.assets after sealing the Compilation.
        Do changes to assets earlier, e. g. in Compilation.hooks.processAssets.
        Make sure to select an appropriate stage from Compilation.PROCESS_ASSETS_STAGE_*.

[wakenby]

Hello, is an update planned? I really want hbs to be alive in wabpack

[sagold]

Hi all,

i will attend to the deprecation warning as soon as there is some spare time. Any pull requests for this topic are also appreciated.

Regards,
sagold

[xavierfoucrier]

Same on my side. Not really an issue, just a deprecation warning.
Subscribing to this thread and wait to see the pull request merged with master branch 😉

[xavierfoucrier]

Hi @sagold,
Any news about the PR to fix this issue with webpack@5?

Thanks 😎

[sagold]

the fix on dev should be working. But the changes made in html-webpack-plugin probably wont support an integration any longer. This is open for investigation. We might need to drop support for other plugins. This doesnt scale anyway...

[xavierfoucrier]

@sagold yes, you might need to upgrade all the stack of dev dependencies.

[SassNinja]

I'm facing the same deprecation warning, after having migrated a project (which uses this handlebars plugin) to webpack 5.

@sagold what do you mean with "the fix on dev should be working"?

I think the reason for the warning is that you're modifying compilation.assets directly what's not recommended anymore. That code still exists in the develop branch https://github.com/sagold/handlebars-webpack-plugin/blob/develop/index.js#L348

[xavierfoucrier]

Hello @sagold,

Any feedback on this?

[xavierfoucrier]

Hello @sagold,

Any news about updating this plugin?
Still in use by many people...

I am thinking about making a fork, or helping you merging existing PRs + fix issues.

Thanks for your feedback! 👍

[sagold]

Hi Xavier.

Thank you for the offer! We should add some maintainers to this repository as this obviously is not my priority.

I plan to update the plugin within the next weeks (and dropping html-webpack-plugin support).

Care to align?

Cheers,
sagold

[xavierfoucrier]

Hi @sagold!

Yeah I can understand about priorities, this past few months open source was not mine too, we all have a side "real" job behind this open source life 😄 ...

Feel free to send me an invite, I can definitely help on this one as I am using it all days!

[webdiscus]

Hi @xavierfoucrier,

you can try to use the new html-bundler-webpack-plugin.
This plugin support the Handlebars templates and has many cool features:

• An entry point is an HTML template.
• Source scripts and styles can be specified directly in HTML using <script> and tags.
• Resolving source assets specified in standard attributes href, src, srcset etc.
• Inline JS, CSS, SVG, PNG without additional plugins and loaders.

[xavierfoucrier]

@webdiscus thanks for the share, I will have a look at this, but since I am now part of the repository admins, this plugin will continue to evolve.