Description
Feature Proposal
I work in a large monorepo, so when I launch the Webpack dev server, the localhost URL is unpredictable. Different apps may use different ports.
Webpack helpfully prints the URL into the console log, so that you can easily click on it to launch the Chrome web browser. It looks like this:
Currently this message is only printed once. After several incremental rebuilds, the message scrolls off the screen and gets lost. The workaround is to kill and restart the dev server, but for large projects this can mean waiting several minutes for initialization.
Suggested improvement: After every incremental rebuild, print the URL last.
How should this be implemented
A minor change to the logging code:
webpack-dev-server/lib/Server.js
if (this.options.ipc) {
this.logger.info(
`Project is running at: "${
/** @type {import("http").Server} */
(this.server).address()
}"`
);
} else {
const protocol =
/** @type {ServerConfiguration} */
(this.options.server).type === "http" ? "http" : "https";
const { address, port } =
/** @type {import("net").AddressInfo} */
(
/** @type {import("http").Server} */
(this.server).address()
);Feature Use Case
This change would make Webpack Dev Server easier to use.
Please paste the results of npx webpack-cli info here, and mention other relevant information
System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.22621
Memory: 3.51 GB / 12.29 GB
Binaries:
Node: 16.15.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.22.19 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\yarn.CMD
npm: 8.11.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Browsers:
Chrome: 114.0.5735.134
Edge: Spartan (44.22621.1848.0), Chromium (114.0.1823.41)
Internet Explorer: 11.0.22621.1