webpack-error-notification-plugin

ErrorNotificationPlugin

A simple Webpack plugin to notify developers with beeps and platform native toasts about build errors. As soon as the build process of Webpack fails or completes with errors, the plugin beeps and toasts the errors. Developers won't miss build errors again, unless they're afk.

Installation

Install the ErrorNotificationPlugin from npm:

npm install --save-dev webpack-error-notification-plugin

Activation

Two steps are neccessary to activate the plugin. Both take place in the webpack.config.js - or whatever you named your configuration file for webpack.

First, import the plugin by adding the following line to the top of the configuration file.

var ErrorNotificationPlugin = require('webpack-error-notification-plugin')

Second, add the ErrorNotificationPlugin to the configuration object:

plugins: [
    new ErrorNotificationPlugin()
]

Configuration

You can choose how the plugin notifies the developers: with beeps, with toasts or both. Just provide the parameters beep and toast in your configuration file of webpack. Set true to activate and false to disable the notification type.

plugins: [
    new ErrorNotificationPlugin({
        beep: true,
        toast: false
    })
]

Prerequisites

The ErrorNotificationPlugin makes use of node-notifier. This module wraps different notification options for the operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. In some cases it's neccessary to install a third-party tool like Growl to see toasts.