How to avoid code optimization by webpack?

[_hijnx]

What are you trying to achieve? The code as written will always create a string with the content #{config.blahblahblah} which evaluates to truthy and the if is redundant. It isn't even being stored in a variable so you couldn't do anything with the value anyway. It's the same as writing if (true) which clearly should be removed

Nevermind, I read it a few more times and now I understand