The original webpack-dashboard, was fun and people seemed to like it. Unless they were on Windows, or used a weird terminal set up, or if they just wanted more. Making things work across a variety of different terminal environments is pretty rough. Also, a web GUI provides some unique UI possibilities that weren't there with the term display. The original dashboard felt like working at NASA. 50 years ago. I hope this dashboard feels like working at NASA today. Or at Westworld. Or like the beginning of Westworld at least. To receive a complete analysis of your bundle, including modules, assets, and problems, you will need to make sure your project is using Webpack Dashboard Plugin 1.0 or higher. Simply hit save on a project running webpack-dev-server, or run your build task that builds with webpack and providing you have configured your project as shown above, you should see the dashboard start to display data.
Features
- The first panel is the webpack log panel where you can see build ouput
- The operations panel shows circular build progress, error counts, build status, total module size and total asset size
- The modules panel shows the modules used in the bundle and their sizes
- The assets panel shows the assets produced by the build, with the JavaScript bundles displaying minified and gzipped sizes, along with warnings for bundle size limits
- The problems panel shows you problems such as version skews or duplicates