Research workarounds for webpack parses varDeclaration

[rensbaardman]

Currently, we have

parser.hooks.varDeclaration.for('rewire').tap('RewireWebpackPlugin', ...

But then we miss things like

const my_rewire_name = require('rewire')

How to work around this?

Possibly contribute to webpack itself with an extra parser option for require statements. Or for function calls, and then specifically require-statements.

[rensbaardman]

It seems related to the fact that you first have to 'register' variables to the parses, because else it will only consider 'free variables'.

See
Sokra: The Parser only handles "free-vars". Identifiers declared in scope do not trigger hooks. This is expected.
webpack/webpack#6740 (comment)

This behaviour seems undocumented. Also note that you need to 'return true' instead of 'return false', as the comment by Sokra suggested.

Related:
webpack/webpack#2585
webpack/webpack#6740