Reviving Add BuildProgressPlugin

[maniax89]

Is this a bug report?

No

I was just wondering if there was any interest in reviving the Add BuildProgressPlugin PR that got closed back in January, 2019

I believe @Timer had it working but wasn't happy with the progress accuracy -> is this still true? not sure if anything has changed but to me it seems like something would be better than nothing

anyone else interested in this? I could try and revive the PR again at some point in the next few weeks

[eladmotola]

I think we should abandon this pr and create a new one that use this plugin instead: https://github.com/clessg/progress-bar-webpack-plugin
What do you think?

[mrmckeb]

I'll let @Timer chime in on this one, as I wasn't across it in detail. If there's a newer, more accurate version, that could also be good to discuss.

By the way, "back in January, 2019" is scary to say so soon ;)

[maniax89]

You caught me :-) January 2018

[eladmotola]

@Timer what do you think? Do you want @maniax89 or me(I hope its ok Andrew) to start working on it?

[maniax89]

I'm fine with you working on it @eladmotola

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[maniax89]

I never got a chance to work on it but would like this to stay open

[iansu]

I'm going to label this as "Up for grabs" unless you think you'll have time to work on it in the near future.

[ryandrew14]

I'd like to dig into this if possible. Would acceptance criteria for this look like getting the webpack ProgressPlugin to work?

[iansu]

I just learned that enabling any of these progress plugins introduces a significant performance penalty in webpack. They all require webpack to emit progress information during the build and that slows things down quite a bit. I don't think it's worth it just to display a progress bar so I'm going to close this issue.