v4.0.0-beta.0: clientLogLevel is removed without replacement

[akphi]

• Operating System: MacOS 11.0.1 (Big Sur)
• Node Version: 14.13.0
• NPM Version: 6.14.8
• Yarn version: 1.22.5
• webpack Version: 5.9.0
• webpack-dev-server Version: 4.0.0-beta.0
• Browser: Chrome Version 87.0.4280.67

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Expected Behavior

In version 3, we can specify the clientLogLevel option to remove info logging from WDS directly to Chrome console.

Actual Behavior

This option has been removed, and when I read the changelog, I tried to follow by setting infrastructureLogging.level to none as well as setting stats.logging to none but Chrome console still show messages like

[HMR] Waiting for update signal from WDS...
[webpack-dev-server] Hot Module Replacement enabled.
[webpack-dev-server] Live Reloading enabled.
[webpack-dev-server] App updated. Recompiling...
[webpack-dev-server] App updated. Recompiling...
[webpack-dev-server] Content base changed. Reloading...
Navigated to http://127.0.0.1:3000/ide
[HMR] Waiting for update signal from WDS...
[webpack-dev-server] Hot Module Replacement enabled.
[webpack-dev-server] Live Reloading enabled.

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

Could we bring back a way to hide these noisy messages or at least show them as debug-level messages in Chrome?

[hiroppy]

Did you try to use client.logging? infrastructureLogging.level is for Node side.

[akphi]

@hiroppy That works! My bad here for not checking for all the possible ways. I was trying to read the code and arrived at this.

Thank you, I'll close this now

[hiroppy]

No worries. I want to improve to respect infrastructureLogging.level when client.logging is empty.

[akphi]

@hiroppy that being said, are you aware of any way for us to customize the format of infrastructureLogging?

From the doc, there seems to be no way since infra logging is no in the stats object. But I would like to customize the formatting I see in the terminal without having to do what create-react-app does which is to implement its own dev server client

[hiroppy]

at V3, you were able to customize a logger but from v4, we decided to use infrastructureLogging so you can't customize it.
see https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/master/lib/logging/createConsoleLogger.js

So... if you want to customize the logger, it's better to suggest this to webpack repo I think.

for example, we can't modify <i>, <e>, etc. so far.