remove console.logs with Webpack & Uglify

Question

I am trying to remove console.logs with Webpack's Uglify plugin but it seems that Uglify plugin that comes bundled with Webpack doesn't have that option, its not mentioned in documentation.

I am initializing uglify from webpack like this: new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin()

My understanding is that I can use standalone Uglify lib to get all the options, but I don't know which one?

The problem is that drop_console isn't working.

Answer 1

Try drop_console:

plugins: [
    new Webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
      compress: {
        drop_console: true,
      }
    }
]

Update: For webpack v4 it has changed a little:

const UglifyJSPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin');

...

optimization: {
  minimizer: [
    new UglifyJSPlugin({
      uglifyOptions: {
        compress: {
          drop_console: true,
        }
      }
    })
  ]
}

Answer 2

For uglifyjs-webpack-plugin, wrap options inside an uglifyOptions object:

    plugins: [
    new UglifyJSPlugin({
        uglifyOptions: {
            compress: {
                drop_console: true
            }
        }
    })
]

Answer 3

I have added a comprehensive answer for webpack v4 with debug configuration

const UglifyJsPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin')
var debug = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production";

.....
optimization: {
        minimizer: !debug ? [
            new UglifyJsPlugin({

                    // Compression specific options
                    uglifyOptions: {
                        // Eliminate comments
                        comments: false,

                        compress: {
                            // remove warnings
                                warnings: false,

                            // Drop console statements
                                drop_console: true
                        },
                    }

                })
            ]
            : []
    }

My scripts in package.json are like so:

"webpackDev": "npm run clean && export NODE_ENV=development && npx webpack",
"webpackProd": "npm run clean && export NODE_ENV=production && npx webpack -p"

Answer 4

this is what I've done to remove alert() and console.log() from my codes. global_defs => replace alerts with console.log then drop_console removes all console.logs and now nothing shows up in my browser console

     new UglifyJsPlugin({
      uglifyOptions: {
        compress: {
          global_defs: {
            "@alert": "console.log",
          },
          drop_console: true
        }
      }
    }),

plugin versions:

"webpack":3.12.0,
"webpack-cli": "^3.0.3",
"uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "^1.2.5",

Right now uglifyjs-webpack-plugin v1.2.6 has been released and I used latest documentations for this one, So I suppose there wont be any problem with latest plugin too.

Answer 5

With UglifyJsPlugin we can handle comments, warnings, console logs but it will not be a good idea to remove all these in development mode. First check whether you are running webpack for prov env or dev env, if it is prod env then you can remove all these, like this:

var debug = process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production";

plugins: !debug ? [
   new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({

     // Eliminate comments
        comments: false,

    // Compression specific options
       compress: {
         // remove warnings
            warnings: false,

         // Drop console statements
            drop_console: true
       },
    })
]
: []

Reference: https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2#compressor-options

Answer 6

This is the new syntax for Webpack v4:

optimization: {
  minimizer: [
    new UglifyJSPlugin({
      uglifyOptions: {
        compress: {
          drop_console: true
        },
        output: {
          comments: false
        }
      },
    }),
  ],
},