Explicit choice to ignore extract manifest

README.md

@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ const inlineChunkManifestConfig = {
   manifestVariable: 'webpackManifest', // webpackManifest is default
   chunkManifestVariable: 'webpackChunkManifest', // webpackChunkManifest is default; use in html-webpack-plugin template
   dropAsset: true, // false is default; use to skip output of the chunk manifest asset (removes manifest.json)
-  manifestPlugins: [/* override default chunk manifest plugin(s) */]
+  manifestPlugins: [/* override default chunk manifest plugin(s) */],
+  extractManifest: false // true is default. When set to false, manifestPlugins (incl default) is not applied
 };
 
 new InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin(inlineChunkManifestConfig)

src/index.js

@@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ class InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin {
       options.chunkManifestVariable || "webpackChunkManifest";
     this.dropAsset = options.dropAsset || false;
 
+    if (
+      options.extractManifest != null &&
+      typeof options.extractManifest !== "boolean"
+    ) {
+      throw new TypeError("Extract manifest must be boolean");
+    }
+
+    this.extractManifest = options.extractManifest != null
+      ? options.extractManifest
+      : true;
+
     const manifestPlugins = options.manifestPlugins;
 
     if (manifestPlugins && !Array.isArray(manifestPlugins)) {
@@ -89,7 +100,9 @@ class InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin {
   }
 
   applyDependencyPlugins(compiler) {
-    this.plugins.forEach(plugin => plugin.apply.call(plugin, compiler));
+    if (this.extractManifest) {
+      this.plugins.forEach(plugin => plugin.apply.call(plugin, compiler));
+    }
   }
 }
 

test/plugin-init-test.js

@@ -26,6 +26,30 @@ test("override drop asset", t => {
   t.is(plugin.dropAsset, true);
 });
 
+test("extract manifest as boolean", t => {
+  const error = t.throws(() => {
+    const plugin = new InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin({
+      extractManifest: 1
+    });
+  }, TypeError);
+
+  t.is(error.message, "Extract manifest must be boolean");
+});
+
+test("default extract manifest", t => {
+  const plugin = new InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin();
+
+  t.is(plugin.extractManifest, true);
+});
+
+test("disable plugins", t => {
+  const plugin = new InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin({
+    extractManifest: false
+  });
+
+  t.is(plugin.extractManifest, false);
+});
+
 test("override manifest filename", t => {
   const plugin = new InlineChunkManifestHtmlWebpackPlugin({
     filename: "another.file"