feature request: silence output using config

I originally asked this as a question on StackOverflow but the lack of response and some digging has lead me to believe that this is not possible. Here’s the original question (copy/paste):

I would like to know if there’s a configuration option to tell webpack to only log the “important information” to the terminal. Pretty much just errors and warnings, not all of this:

There’s just so much output! Would love to suppress the common stuff and only have webpack output the warnings/errors. Would like a solution for webpack, webpack-dev-server, and karma-webpack.

Note: I tried noInfo: true and quiet: true but that didn’t seem to do the trick.

I’ve dug around the code a bit and I don’t think that there’s anything in webpack or webpack-core to silence the output based on the config I give it (though it looks like webpack-dev-server does support this). I would really like to silence output for my tests so I can keep noise to a minimum.

Note: Keeping webpack: bundle is now VALID or INVALID I think would still be valuable. It’s just the info about everything that was built is noisy.

[kentcdodds]

Here’s the relevent code. Looks like the acceptable preset values are: none, errors-only, minimal, normal, verbose and otherwise you can specify your own object:

{
    hash: false,
    version: false,
    timings: false,
    assets: false,
    chunks: false,
    modules: false,
    reasons: false,
    children: false,
    source: false,
    errors: false,
    errorDetails: false,
    warnings: false,
    publicPath: false
}

[kentcdodds]

For others looking at this, I actually prefer configuring it in my webpack config and I also prefer the 'errors-only' option. So my webpack config has this:

{
  devServer: {
    stats: 'errors-only',
  },
}

Thanks!