Error/Warning message when Webpack build doesn't start/hangs

[danchristian]

This was my own stupidity, but I spent a while debugging why it was failing to even begin the Webpack build and just hanging, before realising I had left a call to the BundleAnalyzerPlugin module in my Webpack production config. Removing/commenting this module fixed the issue. Not sure if it's possible to produce an error/warning for this in the future, but obviously it works locally but then silently fails in the build process.

Thanks again for the module.

[jkanczler]

I'll try to reproduce it. So I assume I just have to include BundleAnalyzerPlugin into my webpack configuration for it.

[danchristian]

That should be the case yes.

[jkanczler]

What do you think about the idea to be able to configure a timeout for the webpack task and after the timeout fail the task anyway and give a warning like:

The webpack task couldn't be finished in ${timeout}ms. Maybe the webpack-cli is running in watch mode or using bundle analyzer plugin?

[seanjmalone]

That would have helped in my situation. For me it sat there doing nothing for an hour until hitting the VSTS task timeout.