Log to file?

[Nantris]

We tried wiring things up to have a file generated at startup, but unfortunately we can't find a way to prevent the plugin from constantly re-creating the files when the project is refreshed. If we try something like setting isCompleted = true inside of onEnd() - but isCompleted ends up being set to true before we'd expect and so no report files are generated. I looked at the code but can't figure out what might cause this. Maybe there's something I don't understand about how Webpack runs plugins?

[Nantris]

Hard to guess... But logging to a file I found that the order of operations looks like this on startup:

1. onStart <<< What's going on here?
2. onEnd <<< What's going on here?
3. onStart
4. onDetected (however many times a circular dependency is detected
5. onEnd

Anybody have any insights?

I was guessing maybe this has to do with multiple entry points, but we have three entry points and only two instances of onStart and onEnd.

[Nantris]

The only workaround we can find is to do this in onEnd

if (numCyclesDetected) isCompleted = true;

When we do this, we avoid the false instant-completion from the initial onStart/onEnd runs. I have no idea what might cause this, but the workaround works, at least somewhat.