Webpack externals

[tbillington]

Is there an easy way to add external dependencies to create-react-app without ejecting?

I'm including a google analytics script in the header of index.html. Currently I'm modifying the webpack scripts in react-scripts in node_modules to add the external dep so I can access the ga function in my app to send events.

[gaearon]

Not currently, and this particular feature is unlikely to be added.
I see two options here:

• You can just use window.ga and embrace that it’s global. IMO that’s absolutely fine.
• In the future, we might implement Support absolute paths with packages/ folder #741 and then you could use that to shim globals behind local packages.

[tbillington]

Makes sense, thanks :)

[guilhermebruzzi]

@gaearon In our case, we use react and redux from a CDN, because our product is used everyday by the same users and we like to benefit from caching our main dependencies.
Without external support (making import React from 'react' work from the CDN instead of node_modules), we cant move to use react-scripts instead of our custom webpack.
There is any workaround for this?

[Timer]

Not currently, but please follow #2758.