electron-webpack-dashboard

Electron Desktop GUI for Webpack Dashboard

Whats this all about?

The original webpack-dashboard, was fun and people seemed to like it. Unless they were on Windows, or used a weird terminal set up, or if they just wanted more.

Making things work across a variety of different terminal environments is pretty rough. Also, a web GUI provides some unique UI possibilities that weren't there with the term display.

So here we are.

The original dashboard felt like working at NASA. 50 years ago. I hope this dashboard feels like working at NASA today. Or at Westworld. Or like the beginning of Westworld at least.

Getting Started

NOTE: THIS IS THE INITIAL BETA. THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. PROBABLY.

Install

Download the version for your OS here:

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/electron-webpack-dashboard/releases/latest

Configuring Your Project

First, in your project, install the webpack-dashboard beta release:

npm install webpack-dashboard@v1.0.0-2 --save-dev

Next, in any Webpack config you want telemetry on, import the plugin:

const DashboardPlugin = require('webpack-dashboard/plugin');

Then add the plugin to your config's plugins array, like so:

plugins: [
  // ... your other plugins
    new DashboardPlugin()
  ],

Usage

Simply hit save on a project running webpack-dev-server, or run your build task that builds with webpack and providing you have configured your project as shown above, you should see the dashboard start to display data.

Credits

The visualizations view was essentially recreated using code from https://github.com/chrisbateman/webpack-visualizer, and I am forever grateful that I didn't have to figure this stuff out on my own.