webpackmonitor CLI

[csentis]

Webpackmonitor strikes me as a valuable and good-looking tool.

For users of @angular/cli without an ejected webpack.conf, the use of webpackmonitor is something they still have to long for. The good thing though, is that @angular/cli can be configured to have webpack produce a stats.json.

Would it be thinkable that you further spread this great tool and work on a standard-configurable CLI version of webpackmonitor that would basically pick up the stats-json and do its magic with it just as it does as a webpack-plugin?

[mbehzad]

Hi @csentis, i would say Webpack Monitor has two types of features,

• capturing stats like number of chunks/assets, their sizes, dependency graph, ... and showing their changes over time,
• optimization information e.g. minification level of js, css coverage ...

the first one can be read and put together from the stats.json data. For the second one, the compilation (the output of webpack + plugins) is needed which stats.json does not provide.

Would a cli version which only provides the first type of information be interesting for you / solve your problem?

[csentis]

@mbehzad Thank you for clarifying and asking!

Yes, a CLI covering the aspects of your first bullet point would be a most welcome approach!

Let me know if you want me to close this issue.