Add possibility to hide even startup information when quiet === true

[marcofugaro]

• Operating System: OSX
• Node Version: v13.13.0
• NPM Version: 6.14.4
• webpack Version: 4.42.1
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.10.3
• Browser: Chrome

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Code

REPRODUCIBLE REPO

// webpack.config.js
module.exports = {
  devServer: {
    clientLogLevel: 'silent',
    quiet: true,
  }
}

From the documentation

With devServer.quiet enabled, nothing except the initial startup information will be written to the console.

However I want to hide also the startup information.

This happened since #2235, is there a plan to support hiding that information as well again?

Expected Behavior

Nothing should be outputted to the console

Actual Behavior

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

I am using webpack-dev-server in a custom webapp builder, where I have my custom logs. Something like create-react-app. I want to decide what is output to the console and what not.

[neberej]

There is noInfo: true for this scenario.

I use the following settings and see no console output.

 devServer: {
      clientLogLevel: 'silent',
      noInfo: true
    },

[marcofugaro]

@neberej I've tried your configuration, it still shows the initial information.

I've made a repro if you want to check it out.

[jquense]

This is confusing behavior. WDS is explicitly bypassing the configured logger when quiet is true. quiet should mean what is says, no logs

[alexander-akait]

@jquense yep, for v4 we migrate on built-in webpack logger (problems doesn't exist), so you can easy disable all logs, for v3 you should use noInfo: true (we can't change it because it is a breaking change)

[thealjey]

@alexander-akait
even with stats: "errors-warnings", (or even with "none") in webpack.config
I see:

<i> [webpack-dev-server] Project is running at:
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Loopback: http://localhost:8080/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv4): http://192.168.91.128:8080/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Content not from webpack is served from '/home/al/Projects/designer/public' directory
<i> [webpack-dev-server] 404s will fallback to '/index.html'
webpack compiled successfully
No issues found.
webpack compiled successfully
No issues found.

I would like to get rid of all the "<i>" lines
(and to someday figure out why it compiles twice on startup)
I have the following package versions:
webpack: 5.51.0
webpack-cli: 4.8.0
webpack-dev-server: 4.0.0

[alexander-akait]

For logger please use https://webpack.js.org/configuration/other-options/#level

[alexander-akait]

If you want to hide unnecessary things, please use level: "warn"

[alexander-akait]

I would like to get rid of all the "<i>" lines

Impossible, because it means info, you can disable colors or your terminal can't support colors, so we use <i> to indicate it is info message

[thealjey]

@alexander-akait
wow, thank you so much!
this was bugging me for months :)

[meduzen]

I would like to get rid of all the "" lines

Impossible, because it means info, you can disable colors or your terminal can't support colors, so we use <i> to indicate it is info message

It’s the first time I see this “output design” choice, so it bugged me too. I understand the intent, but the message is pretty clear by itself. Not sure it needs an additional flag to indicate it’s informative.