speed-measure-webpack-plugin

The first step to optimising your webpack build speed, is to know where to focus your attention.

This plugin measures your webpack build speed, giving an output like this:

Install

npm install --save-dev speed-measure-webpack-plugin

or

yarn add -D speed-measure-webpack-plugin

Requirements

SMP requires at least Node v6. But otherwise, accepts all webpack versions (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5).

To work on the repository itself and run the test suite, use Node v18+.

Usage

Change your webpack config from

const webpackConfig = {
  plugins: [new MyPlugin(), new MyOtherPlugin()],
};

to

const SpeedMeasurePlugin = require("speed-measure-webpack-plugin");

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin();

const webpackConfig = smp.wrap({
  plugins: [new MyPlugin(), new MyOtherPlugin()],
});

and you’re done! SMP will now be printing timing output to the console by default.

Check out the examples folder for some more examples.

Options

Pass these into the constructor, as an object:

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin(options);

options.disable

Type: Boolean
Default: false

If truthy, this plugin does nothing at all.

{ disable: !process.env.MEASURE } allows opt-in measurements with MEASURE=true npm run build.

options.outputFormat

Type: String|Function
Default: "human"

Determines in what format this plugin prints its measurements

• "json" - produces a JSON blob
• "human" - produces a human readable output
• "humanVerbose" - produces a more verbose version of the human readable output
• If a function, it will call the function with the JSON blob, and output the response

options.outputTarget

Type: String|Function
Default: console.log

• If a string, it specifies the path to a file to output to.
• If a function, it will call the function with the output as the first parameter

options.pluginNames

Type: Object
Default: {}

By default, SMP derives plugin names through plugin.constructor.name. For some plugins this doesn’t work (or you may want to override this default). This option takes an object of pluginName: PluginConstructor, e.g.

const uglify = new UglifyJSPlugin();
const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin({
  pluginNames: {
    customUglifyName: uglify,
  },
});

const webpackConfig = smp.wrap({
  plugins: [uglify],
});

options.excludedPlugins

Type: Array<String|Function|RegExp>
Default: []

Excludes plugins from SMP’s proxy wrapping. Entries can be:

• a plugin name
• a plugin constructor
• a regular expression matched against plugin names

Name matching checks both options.pluginNames aliases and constructor names. E.g.

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin({
  pluginNames: {
    customReactRefresh: reactRefreshPlugin,
  },
  excludedPlugins: [
    "customReactRefresh",
    MiniCssExtractPlugin,
    /SomeLegacyPlugin$/,
  ],
});

options.loaderTopFiles

Type: Number
Default: 0

You can configure SMP to include the files that take the most time per loader, when using outputFormat: 'humanVerbose'. E.g., to show the top 10 files per loader:

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin({
  outputFormat: "humanVerbose",
  loaderTopFiles: 10,
});

options.compareLoadersBuild

Type: Object
Default: {}

This option gives you a comparison over time of the module count and time spent, per loader. This option provides more data when outputFormat: "humanVerbose".

Given a required filePath to store the build information, this option allows you to compare differences to your codebase over time. E.g.

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin({
  compareLoadersBuild: {
    filePath: "./buildInfo.json",
  },
});

options.granularLoaderData (experimental)

Type: Boolean
Default: false

By default, SMP measures loaders in groups. If truthy, this plugin will give per-loader timing information.

This flag is experimental. Some loaders will have inaccurate results:

• loaders using separate processes (e.g. thread-loader)
• loaders emitting file output (e.g. file-loader)

We will find solutions to these issues before removing the (experimental) flag on this option.

options.excludedLoaders

Type: Array<String|RegExp>
Default: []

When you enable granularLoaderData, SMP prepends its timing loader to each matching loader rule. Use this option to skip rules whose loader chain contains a matching loader name or regular expression. String matching checks both the original loader request and the normalized package name. E.g.

const smp = new SpeedMeasurePlugin({
  granularLoaderData: true,
  excludedLoaders: ["thread-loader", /mini-css-extract-plugin/],
});

FAQ

What does general output time mean?

This tends to be down to webpack reading in from the file-system, but in general it’s anything outside of what SMP can actually measure.

What does modules without loaders mean?

It means vanilla JS files, which webpack can handle out of the box.

Contributing

Contributors are welcome! 😊

Please check out the CONTRIBUTING.md.

Migrating

SMP follows semver. If upgrading a major version, you can consult the migration guide.

License

MIT

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Stephen Cook 💻 📖 📝 🎨 💬 👀	scarletsky 💻	牛さん 💻 🐛	Thomas Bentkowski 📖	Alan Agius 💻 🐛	Ximing 💻 🐛	Tan Li Hau 💻 🐛 ⚠️
Björn Brauer 💻 🐛	Suraj Patel 💻	Jm 💻 🐛 ⚠️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!