webpack / webpack-dev-middleware

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this paragraph is mentioned in the ReadMe file to access stats but checked in code the stats field is not present inside devMiddleware.context.stats but in devMiddleware.stats

const { devMiddleware } = res.locals.webpack;
const outputFileSystem = devMiddleware.context.outputFileSystem;
const jsonWebpackStats = devMiddleware.context.stats.toJson();
const { assetsByChunkName, outputPath } = jsonWebpackStats;

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Either update the code or ReadMe.

const { devMiddleware } = res.locals.webpack;
const outputFileSystem = devMiddleware.outputFileSystem;
const jsonWebpackStats = devMiddleware.stats.toJson();
const { assetsByChunkName, outputPath } = jsonWebpackStats;

Feel free to send a fix to docs, just use devMiddleware.context.stats

This is what I am saying cannot use stats via this devMiddleware.context.stats as context is undefined.

@MDAkramSiddiqui When you try to get this? Becaue it can be undefined if no builds happend

Talking about this line, devMiddleware is context itself, @alexander-akait

webpack-dev-middleware/src/middleware.js

Line 88 in 9d1edd4

(res.locals).webpack = { devMiddleware: context };

Do you have middleware after webpack-dev-middleware? Anyway can you create minimum reproducible test repo, because I can't undestand there is place where you try to get it, thank you

yes, I have a middleware after webpack-dev-middleware where I read assets, for that I am reading devMiddleware.stats.
I am not saying it is a bug, just that readme doc is not correct as per this line of code.

Oh, I see, do you want to send a PR with fix?

cannot raise a PR, getting error that I don't have permission.

You need fork firstly, then send a PR to your fork and then go to PR requests and send it

thanks, have raised the PR #1485

Incorrect stats position field in res object

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