Plugins and handling Envirounments

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Hi,

I got the task to enable some sort of Microfrontend handling within our Company, we already decided to go with Module Federation wich I really enjoy so far (came from an SystemJs Project). But putting this into an larger Scale is a bit challenging.

First of my goal is to manipulate the loaded Remotes for an Application based on the envirounment where I plan to inject the respective Remotes. I tried to implement it as an plugin wich roughly hooks into the beforeInit hook. This worked already well and I'm able to inject our corporate remotes correctly.

But how it is possible to access any build time Variables within the Plugin. I tried in an modern js bootstrap to access certain variables I setup with source.define and source.define but since this only leads to Code replacement it is not possible to truly put this into runtime. As I would suggest since the plugin lives in the .node_modules/.federation custom compilation wich does not replace that accordingly.

So my question is: Are I'm on the right track to configure such a thing with an module federation plugin or should I target an modern / rspack plugin to inject the module federation accordingly. Or are there better approaches for that ?

Greetings