Import a cert file as a string using webpack

Question

I was really hoping I'd be able to use webpack to load a certificate file containing text using the raw-loader. Unfortunately it fails at the -'s in the first line: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----.
As a test I removed the first -----, and then it fails at a " " (space) character.

Seemed like a much simpler solution than using fs and a callback.

To clarify, i'd like to be able to do this:

import caCert from './cacert';

Answer 1

If you want to load some file via loader, add loader name as prefix to your import:

import caCert from 'raw!./cacert';

Also, you can setup your loader in webpack config to match appropriate files by their names

module: {
  loaders: [
    {
      test: /cacert$/,
      loaders: [ 'raw-loader' ]
    }
  ]
}