mzgoddard/hard-source-webpack-plugin

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

HardSourceWebpackPlugin is a webpack plugin that provides an intermediate hard (disk-based) caching step for modules, making subsequent builds significantly faster. It stores module source and dependency info on disk and reuses it across runs.

Use cases

• speed up webpack rebuilds
• cache webpack modules on disk
• reduce build times for large webpack projects
• make second webpack builds faster
• cache module sources between builds

When to choose

• you use webpack 4 or earlier and want faster repeat builds
• build times are dominated by recompiling unchanged modules
• you want a drop-in webpack plugin for persistent caching

When to avoid

• you use webpack 5, which has built-in persistent filesystem cache
• your build is already fast or mostly cache-hostile
• you rely on loaders incompatible with hard-source caching

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

caching build-tool developer-tools web-development performance cli webpack-plugin build-cache disk-cache incremental-builds nodejs

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