Option to skip waiting for webpack-chunks.json

[Aristotle Tiru]

Thanks for the hard work on this project, btw. Saved me a ton!

Q: Will it make sense to add an option that can disable waiting for webpack-chunks.json? Something like:

{
    nochunks: [true | false]
}

In my case, for an existing project, i needed to add server side rendering. Client settings require chunks, but server side does not. Still in progress, and I expect to work on this for a few days more.

My temporary workaround is to create the file as part of the build script.
But I think it will help on cases where the project is already existing.

[Nikolay]

Client settings require chunks, but server side does not.

Not understand. Server-side rendering does required chunks because it's has the URL to the javascript file unliess it's main.js which is lame and should be using hashes instead.

[Aristotle Tiru]

Basically SSR for this react project has a different webpack settings at the moment, where optimizations are disabled (ie chunks, uglify). Quite redundant on most parts, but consolidation of the settings will happen a bit later in my case. An option to temporarily disable the wait_for_file(chunks) would be a nice feature for those who start adopting universal-webpack on the server side first, client side later.

[Nikolay]

I see.
Well, this project is intended to be used as a Webpack configuration generator (client -> server) and running it the other way is not an intended behaviour.
Still no one is forcing a developer to call the server(config) function: a developer can do it by himself like

	import wait_for_file from './wait for file'

	// Path to `build/server.js`
	// (built by Webpack)
	const server_bundle_path = '...'
	
	// waits for the first Webpack server-side build to finish and produce `webpage_rendering_server.js`
	return wait_for_file(server_bundle_path).then(function()
	{
		require(server_bundle_path)()
	}