Extract Text Plugin does not work in child compilations

[jantimon]

From jantimon/html-webpack-plugin#579

The root problem is that the extract text plugin uses kind of a hack to communicate between loader and plugin. (See here https://github.com/webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin/blob/master/index.js#L216-L227 and here https://github.com/webpack-contrib/extract-text-webpack-plugin/blob/master/loader.js#L26)
This hack works only in the main compilation however the html-webpack-plugin is using a child compilation.

This might add a feature request for the webpack core (easier communication between loaders and plugins)

[bebraw]

This might add a feature request for the webpack core (easier communication between loaders and plugins)

This actually raises an interesting question. How to associate a loader or loaders with some specific plugin? Perhaps this means there needs to be a concept of identity. webpack core already uses something known as ident. If we went with that, you would pass ident field through a loader/plugin to associate them with each other (probably many to many should work too).

[michael-ciniawsky]

Is there anything new happend recently in terms of webpack core ? How to start with this, any ideas?

[bebraw]

Please ask Tobias for details.

[michael-ciniawsky]

Maybe #483, but I didn't take a deeper look at it

[StevenDoesStuffs]

So it looks like this isn't getting fixed any time soon :/ because ultimately, #483 needs webpack/webpack#4704, which contains breaking changes and therefore will wait until webpack 3.