Clean Terminal Webpack Plugin

Cleans your terminal output during development to only show the latest build information.

Install

Via npm:

npm i -D clean-terminal-webpack-plugin

Usage

Via webpack config file:

// webpack.config.js

const CleanTerminalPlugin = require('clean-terminal-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [new CleanTerminalPlugin()]
};

API

The plugin accepts an options Object:

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
`message`	String	no	`undefined`	Message to be printed
`onlyInWatchMode`	Boolean	no	`true`	Only clear the screen if webpack is in watch mode
`skipFirstRun`	Boolean	no	`false`	Don't clear the screen on first webpack run
`beforeCompile`	Boolean	no	`false`	Clear screen before compiling instead of after (v3 and above)

Example

// webpack.config.js

const CleanTerminalPlugin = require('clean-terminal-webpack-plugin');

const HOST = 'localhost';
const PORT = 8888;

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new CleanTerminalPlugin({
      message: `dev server running on http://${HOST}:${PORT}`,
      onlyInWatchMode: false
    })
  ]
};

Development

Lint source code with:

npm run lint

Lint and format (prettier) source code with:

npm run lint:format

Contributing

Please read the Contributing Guidelines first.