stats.json messed up with outputs from webpackbar

First of all, thanks so much for this wonderful progress bar.

I was using webpackbar and tried to write a stats.json file to be used by webpack-bundle-analyzer.

Here’s my npm script:

webpack --env=production --profile --json > stats.json

However, stats.json contains some output from webpackbar. Here’s how it looks like:

ℹ Compiling Webpack                                        webpackbar 18:06:57
✔ Webpack: Compiled successfully in 3.22s                  webpackbar 18:07:00
{
  "errors": [],
  "warnings": [],
  "version": "4.29.3",
  "hash": "ed64caf72379ba267639",
  "time": 3228,
  "builtAt": 1549976820840,
  "publicPath": "/",
  "outputPath": "/Users/shahzaib/my-stuff/serious-projects/testing-shaizei/copy-jetsetter/build",
  "assetsByChunkName": {
    "main": [
    // remaining file is not included for brevity
}

Due to these two lines (in the start), stats.json is becoming invalid.

Any workaround for this?

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[thasmo]

When using the --json flag via webpack-cli the webpackbar plugin should not output …

webpackbar 13:14:00 ℹ Compiling Webpack
webpackbar 13:14:04 ✔ Webpack: Compiled successfully in 3.40s

… because it makes the JSON output invalid.

Will this issue be worked on in the future or are there any reasons it has not been closed yet? Thanks!

[Airkro]

Countless plugins use the console API. So I think any output from the terminal is untrustworthy, I don’t recommend using whatever --foo --bar > files.json