Is it possible to fully dynamically load external package component ?

[marckraw]

We have a component library. We are trying to load a component with dynamic name. It doest work when i try to load it from node_modules, but it works when i try to load local files

This guy works

const AsyncComponent = loadable(
    (props) => {
        return import(`./${props.icon}`)
    }
);

This guy doesnt work

const AsyncComponent = loadable(
    (props) => {
        return import(`@amazing/componentlib/${props.icon}`)
    }
);

So my question is, is it possible to load dynamically files from node_modules ?

(doing it in nextjs)

Also, to make clear, the problem is with dynamically constructed imports, this guy, works without problems:

const AsyncComponent = loadable(
    props => 
        import(`@amazing/componentlib/IconAirplane`)
)

[theKashey]

There is nothing special in loadable code capable to distinguish between your code and node_modules. However, I never tried loading stuff like in your example.

Can I ask for clarification - what does mean "This guy doesnt work"? How exactly?

[bashjs]

Probably off-topic, but what I noticed is if you use this construction in a loop:

const AsyncIcon = loadable(
  // this import resolves only for the 1st icon in the list which is the component "A" (see below)
  (props) => import(`./${props.icon}`),
  {
    resolveComponent(module, props) {
      // here you'll receive the icon name from each `map` iteration ("A", then "B", and "C" in the last call)
      const { icon } = props;
  
      // in case the module doesn't use a `default` export you have to take it by its key.
      // however, this will fail because the module is always "A", but on the second step you expect it as "ModuleB.B"
      return module[icon];
    },
  }
);

and then

const icons = ["A", "B", "C"];

<>
  {icons.map(icon => <AsyncIcon key={icon} icon={icon} /> }
</>

I was able to "solve" it via () => import("./index") where you can re-export all the icons so in the consequent resolveComponent function calls you can reference to IndexModule.A, IndexModule.B, ... module[icon] without errors. But the resulting chunk will contain all the icons reexported from the index file. Imagine you have 100 icons there if you need only 3 of them.

[theKashey]

A little off-topic, but however, this will fail because the module is always "A" sounds like a bug

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[pavelloz]

I have the same problem. Dynamic path doesnt work, hardcoded one does.
Both are in src/, so no node_modules complexity.

This works:

const C = loadable(() => import('../screens/Test')

This doesnt work:

const componentPath = props.match.route.compPath // ../screens/Test
const C = loadable(() => import(`${componentPath}`))

It does not find the module... Cannot find module '../screens/Test'. Im using webpack 5.

Webpack shows Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression and loadable-components throw this error:
https://github.com/gregberge/loadable-components/blob/main/packages/component/src/createLoadable.js#L106-L113

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