Serious merging issues

[abhishekchotaliya]

This boilerplate works fine, but recently I have found out that the webpack configuration is somewhat incorrect and because of that, my background script is also reflected in my popup.js code.

(In my case, I am making an api call in background, but it is triggering the api call again when I open the popup)

I've rechecked my code in all possible ways and after that only I came to conclusion that the webpack configuration is merging all the js files.

Is there any option for NOT COMBINING the scripts at compile time?

[samuelsimoes]

We need some minimal sample code to check this bug. I did a simple test here putting an alert inside the js/background and it isn't triggering when opening the popover, it just appears when loading the extension as it should happen.

[abhishekchotaliya]

Actually I figured out the issue. It was happening because I was importing one common function in both popup.js and background.js.

But somehow, when calling the background script function, it is triggering the popup.js function. Which I am not able to understand and debug.

Currently, I am closing the popup whenever I need to call that background script function and it is working fine for now.