Description
A pull request by @sokra was merged and maintainers requested a documentation change.
See pull request: webpack/webpack#9126
improve merging of resolve and parsing options
by rules and via loader API
Objects are deeply merged
Arrays overwrite by default, but can reference old value with "..."
fixes #8968
What kind of change does this PR introduce?
feature, maybe bugfix
Did you add tests for your changes?
yes
Does this PR introduce a breaking change?
yes
What needs to be documented once your changes are merged?
Rule.resolve/Rule.parser objects are now deeply merged.
In array the special "..." item can now be used to reference to old value, while otherwise array values overwrite each other.
This also affects the getResolve(options) API in the loader API