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Notify webpack compilation status to your operating system when using webpack-sane-compiler
Notify webpack compilation status to your operating system when using webpack-sane-compiler.
$ npm install webpack-sane-compiler-notifier --save-dev
const startNotifying = require('webpack-sane-compiler-notifier');
const { stop, options } = startNotifying(compiler, {/* options */});
// Call compiler.run() or compiler.watch() to start a compilation and you will see OS notifications showing up
// Calling stop() will stop listening to the compiler events
// Furthermore, you have access to the options that were computed by the merge of provided options and the defaults
| Name | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| title | The title for the notification | string | package.json name |
| icon | The icon for the notification | string | webpack-logo.png |
| sound | Play a sound when notifying on OS that support it | string | false |
$ npm test
$ npm test -- --watch during development
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Notify webpack compilation status to your operating system when using webpack-sane-compiler
We found that webpack-sane-compiler-notifier demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 20 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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