memory-usage-webpack-plugin

Work in progress

Plugin for generating insightful data about your Webpack runtime memory consumption.

The plugin watches for a rss memory consumption over a threshold, and when the memory is greater logs a .heapsnapshot that can be loaded in the chrome developer tools or heapviz.com

Install

npm i -D memory-usage-webpack-plugin

Usage

webpack.config.js

const MemoryUsageWebpackPlugin = require('memory-usage-webpack-plugin')

module.exports = {
  // webpackConfig,
  plugins: [
    // ...plugins,
    new MemoryUsageWebpackPlugin({ 
        // ...options
     })
  ]
}

Options

Param	Type	Default	Description
threshold	number	1024	Memory in mb when to save the first heapsnaptshot
tresholdIncrease	number	100	Memory in mb to increase threshold after a threshold is reached
snaptshotOnKill	boolean	true	Logs a heapsnaptshot when a kill -9 kills the process
snaptshotOnSignal	boolean	true	Logs a heapsnaptshot when a kill -USR2 kills the process