Webpack-bundle-analyzer: Create React App no longer supporting webpack-bundle-analyzer

[n8sabes]

Create React App recently removed the build --stats feature that enabled webpack-bundle-analyzer to function in favor of source-map-explorer. This is a HUGE step backwards.

create-react-app issue #6904

If anybody can offer workarounds to get webpack-bundle-analyzer functioning again with CRA, it would be appreciated.

[bugzpodder]

The --stats flag was included in 2.x as part of a workaround to visualizing bundles that uses code splitting and it was meant to be temporary (thus was never added to the docs). This was previously hard to do with source-map-explorer, however they were recently updated to support for multiple bundles. Since the primary purpose of source-map-explorer and webpack-bundle-analyzer is to show you what's inside the bundles as such we don't see a need to continue supporting both at this moment.

[valscion]

Yeah this issue is best discussed in CRA repository, it's not up to us what CRA supports although we can definitely help with CRA if they'd want the support there.

[svengau]

Just for reference, I've published the tool cra-bundle-analyzer to generate the bundle analyzer report:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/cra-bundle-analyzer

Hope it helps.

[n8sabes]

@svengau I just tried your tool, and it works awesome! Thank you so much!

You rock.