@lr0pb Awesome, thanks for this! :)

I've been thinking about renaming the --external-userdeps flag lately to something simpler but I haven't reached a conclusion yet (ideas welcome). In any case if I do rename it in a future release I'll send you a mention to let you know.

Btw, overall experience in using it with custom bundler goes smooth, I used it with Parcel. Thanks for your awesome work! 🥇

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@skidding Well, if I right understand - without this flag same userdeps file or something related generated under the hood? In this case, it could be like --expose-userdeps or --export-userdeps or really --generate-userdeps ><
If flag mainly suited to use with custom bundler, it could be --custom-bundler / --custom-renderer or same variants with with- prefix (--with-custom-renderer)

@skidding Well, if I right understand - without this flag same userdeps file or something related generated under the hood? In this case, it could be like --expose-userdeps or --export-userdeps or really --generate-userdeps >< If flag mainly suited to use with custom bundler, it could be --custom-bundler / --custom-renderer or same variants with with- prefix (--with-custom-renderer)

Yeah, that's correct. When you use a plugin like the Vite or Webpack ones they call generateUserDepsModule() directly and inject it as a module under the hood, so no need to write the module on disk anymore.

Thanks for the suggestions!

@lr0pb Got around to refactoring the "userdeps" module and flag.

• I liked your "expose" suggestion and decided to call it --expose-imports.
• Also renamed the file from cosmos.userdeps.js to cosmos.imports.js. I think the new name is more intuitive.
• If you have TypeScript installed a TS module will be generated instead as cosmos.imports.ts.
• You can override the path under exposeImports cosmos config option or by passing a value to the CLI arg: cosmos --expose-imports custom-imports-file.js.

Already changed in 6.0.0-alpha.17 or react-cosmos@next.

Thank you, got it!
I am also found several other things today, will file issues for them