[idea] Silencing Webpack output

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Please provide use cases for changing the current behavior:

Currently, Webpack spits out a heap of information when running 'npm start' and it's a bit overwhelming, especially as asset counts grow for a project. Plus, BrowserSync connection information gets lots in the mix. I would like to propose building in the option to disable the superfluous information (maybe making it a default, and toggling it off if desired.)

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Ideas for implementing this can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31933551

This solution is ideal as it allows error messages to pass through, while suppressing everything else.

[derkjn]

I had a play around the current configuration files and turns out, this would be extremely easy.
Following the stackoverflow post, I simply added {noInfo: true} to the current webpack.plugin.browsersync.js middleware function.
Don't know if this will get approved for sage or not but definitely nice to have a cleaner output!

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Cool. I thought it would be pretty simple to do. Might be worthy of a PR!

[mrobit]

Webpack output in the command line can get ridiculous, especially if you cmd+click on the URL browser-sync outputs in the terminal when the server command is started. +1 from me.

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It's especially a pain when you're trying to catch an error in a SCSS file for example, but it all whizzes past too quickly to read it in the console.

I've found a better solution that just supresses the chunk information, but still gives you useful stats on the watched files. It also still outputs errors and warnings, eg deprecation messages from SASS. It's not as noisy as before but it's still useful. I'm about to submit a PR with the change 👍

[retlehs]

closed by #1751

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Thanks!