Webpack Stats Diff

Creates a comment inside your Pull-Request with the difference between two Webpack stats files.

Usage

To use this Github action, in your steps you may have:

uses: chronotruck/webpack-stats-diff-action@1.0.0
with:
  base_stats_path: '/path/to/my/stats.json'
  head_stats_path: '/path/to/my/stats.json'
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  comment_title: 'Custom title'

Inputs

Inputs	Required	Default	Description
base_stats_path	true		Path to the Webpack generated "stats.json" file from the base branch.
head_stats_path	true		Path to the Webpack generated "stats.json" file from the head branch.
token	true		Github token so the package can publish a comment in the pull-request when the diff is ready.
comment_title	false	'Bundle difference'	Customized GitHub comment title.

Usage example

If you want to compare the bundle size difference between your base branch and your pull-request head branch.

We suppose that when you build your webpack app, a stats.json file is created. See https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer for usage examples.

You'll need to build your Webpack bundle for the head branch:

on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  build-head:
    name: 'Build head'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm ci
    - name: Build
      run: npm run build

Then we will use the Github Actions feature called "artifacts" to store that stats.json file.

    - name: Upload stats.json
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: head-stats
        path: ./dist/stats.json

Now you can do the exact same thing, but for the base branch. Note the checkout step!

  build-base:
    name: 'Build base'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      with:
        ## Here we do not checkout the current branch, but we checkout the base branch.
        ref: ${{ github.base_ref }}
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: npm ci
    - name: Build
      run: npm run build
    - name: Upload stats.json
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: base-stats
        path: ./dist/stats.json

Now, in a new job we can retrieve both of our saved stats from the artifacts and use this action to compare them.

  compare:
    name: 'Compare base & head bundle sizes'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [build-base, build-head]
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Download base artifact
      uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: base-stats
    - name: Download head artifact
      uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: head-stats
    - name: Diff between base & head
      uses: chronotruck/webpack-stats-diff-action@1.0.0
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        base_stats_path: ./base-stats/stats.json
        head_stats_path: ./head-stats/stats.json

That's it! When the compare job will be executed, it will post a comment in the current pull-request with the difference between the two stats.json files.

License

This project is licensed under MIT License. Open source time proudly sponsored by Chronotruck.