NormalModuleReplacementPlugin has no effect with less-loader@4

[snadn]

there is 3 files, a.less b.less c.less
a import b, and i use NormalModuleReplacementPlugin to replace b to c

when i use webpack@1 and less-loader@2, b is replaced by c.

but, upgrade to webpack@2 and less-loader@4, nothing happend

[jhnns]

Hi, thanks for the bug report. It would be a big help if you could provide a minimal test repository that demonstrates the problem so I can check that out. Try to remove as much stuff as possible since it helps tracking down the problem.

[snadn]

@jhnns here is the demo https://github.com/snadn/less-loader-test

[snadn]

Hey, what's the status on this?

[Biktop]

I confirm that NormalModuleReplacementPlugin doesn't work correctly in less-loader@4 but it works in v3.0.0.

[zombieJ]

Currently Ant Design provides theme less file. User can use modifyVars to replace.
But we wish there have a better way to replace hole theme less instead of variable config.

Seems NormalModuleReplacementPlugin is a good solution. It should re-consider of this PR: #216

cc @michael-ciniawsky

[cap-Bernardito]

NormalModuleReplacementPlugin is not intended for your purposes, and is no longer supported by less-loader. Use it instead of aliases.