Shown in readme how to generate stats.json

[higimo]

now is riddle=)

[smelukov]

You don't even need to generate stats.json
Just use webpack-plugin
But if you want to save stats somewhere, you can use saveStatsTo-option ☺️

[tony]

Uh oh! I don't get any output files when adding StatoscopeWebpackPlugin(), regardless of the options passed and having the right stats declared. Are there any diagnostic messages that the plugin has to indicate it starting up, is about to save a stats file, etc? I may be able to file a proper issue (or document what I did wrong so it can help someone)

[email protected], @statoscope/[email protected], node 16.13.0

But if you want to save stats somewhere, you can use saveStatsTo-option ☺️

Assuming the user doesn't enter saveStatsTo: Where would they view their stats?

[smelukov]

@tony by default, if no options are specified, StatoscopeWebpackPlugin saves the HTML report into a temporary directory and opens it in your browser after the bundle is ready.
If you need to save the report into a specific directory, you could use saveReportTo-option
Also, if you need to save stats.json separately, you could use saveStatsTo-option

[tony]

@smelukov I wonder if the reason it's not launching a browser is I'm in WSL 2.

Is there a default file location where the browser usually opens? Does it print the URL to the console in case the browser doesn't open?

[smelukov]

It does not print output file path for now. But I'll add it.
For now you could specify saveReportTo: 'report.html' to save the report into current directory