Doesn't work with plugins that refresh terminal

[alxtz]

Issue

plugins like friendly-errors-webpack-plugin or clean-terminal-webpack-plugin clean the terminal screen after every emit event in webpack, which would clean the current files display that's using process.stdout.write

Screenshots

the screen after refresh

if scroll on top, the file names are cleared

Solutions

I've looked at how some other plugins does this, it turns out like unused-files-webpack-plugin just outputs a long string as the message for new Error() , I didn't really found a better way to do this (maybe can dig into webpack to see what are the formats compilation.warnings supports

Proposal

I've wrote a small PoC for using long new Error() strings instead of process.stdout.write() , the output would look like
, the output would not be cleared for those plugins

The example code is here, master...alxtz:master , if this looks fine I can clean up the code & write a PR

[zapo]

Seems like a lot of PRs/issues are trying to fix the same problem.
This was for example my proposal to use the webpack logger API #34

[zapo]

For other PRs trying to fix that issue also look at #36 and #35.
Their approach is to output to a file instead of stdout.