Allowing the disabling or removal of the HTMLPlugin

What problem does this feature solve?

I’m using v3.0.0-beta.15 of the CLI.

I have an existing backend that generates it’s down default document. I don’t need an index.html file generated or copied to my output folder.

I’m able to run vue create . in a sub folder of my project. I’ve manually deleted the public folder. Then I’ve created a vue.config.js file and tried the follow 3 options. However, non of these options work in preventing the index.html being copied.

    chainWebpack: config => {
        config.plugin('html').clear();
    }

....

    chainWebpack: config => {
        config.plugins.delete('html');
    }

....

    chainWebpack: config => {
        config.plugins.delete('copy');
    }

What does the proposed API look like?

This configuration setting should work, unless there’s an alternative API already available that would be a better fit.

   chainWebpack: config => {
           config.plugins.delete('html');
   }

[Kenvdb]

@Akryum - if you would like to keep it dynamic, you could do following:

let vueConfig = {
    filenameHashing: false,
    pages: {
        index: 'src/main.js',
        subpage: 'src/sub.js'
    },
    chainWebpack: config => {
	Object.keys(vueConfig.pages).forEach(function (key) {
            config.plugins.delete('html-' + key);
            config.plugins.delete('preload-' + key);
            config.plugins.delete('prefetch-' + key);
        });
    }
}

module.exports = vueConfig;

[mikedidthis]

@MrToy I faced a similar issue with pages:

module.exports = {
    filenameHashing: false,
    pages: {
        index: 'src/main.js',
        subpage: 'src/sub.js'
    },
    chainWebpack: config => {
        config.plugins.delete('html-index')
        config.plugins.delete('preload-index')
        config.plugins.delete('prefetch-index')
        config.plugins.delete('html-subpage')
        config.plugins.delete('preload-subpage')
        config.plugins.delete('prefetch-subpage')
    }
}

To find out the plugin names to delete: vue inspect --plugins.