webpack-filter-warnings-plugin

What is webpack-filter-warnings-plugin?

The webpack-filter-warnings-plugin is an npm package designed to help developers filter out unwanted warnings from the webpack compilation process. This can be particularly useful in large projects where certain warnings are known and benign, allowing developers to focus on more significant issues.

What are webpack-filter-warnings-plugin's main functionalities?

Filter specific warnings

This feature allows developers to exclude specific warnings from the webpack output by using regular expressions. In the provided code sample, the plugin is configured to exclude warnings that match the regular expression related to critical dependency warnings.

const FilterWarningsPlugin = require('webpack-filter-warnings-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new FilterWarningsPlugin({
      exclude: /Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression/
    })
  ]
};

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README

webpack-filter-warnings-plugin

Allows you to hide certain warnings from webpack compilations

Install

npm i -D webpack-filter-warnings-plugin

Usage

// webpack.config.js
const FilterWarningsPlugin = require('webpack-filter-warnings-plugin');

module.exports = {
  // ... rest of webpack config
  plugins: [
    new FilterWarningsPlugin({ 
      exclude: /any-warnings-matching-this-will-be-hidden/ 
    })
  ]
}

Why not use the built in stats.warningsFilter option?

Currently karma-webpack does not respect the stats.warningsFilter option. Also when excluding all warnings, webpack still says Compiled with warnings. when all warnings are filtere. Hopefully this plugin will no longer need to exist one day.

Licence

MIT

Changelog

1.2.1 (2018-11-25)

Bug Fixes

• handle warnings which are plain strings instead of objects (0849576)

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