How do you remove console.log from a build using the JS Quasar Framework? - vue.js

Question

I am trying the Quasar Framework (for those not familiar, it's based on Vue) and it's going well. However I've tried running a build (npm run build) and get repeated:
error Unexpected console statement no-console
... so the build fails because it sees console.log(...) and is not happy. My options:
don't use console.log in development. But it's handy.
comment out the eslint rule that presumably enforces that, so letting console.log into production. But that's not ideal for performance/security.
have the build automatically remove any console.log. That's what I'm after.
But how?
I took a look at the build https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/cli-documentation/build-commands and it mentions using webpack internally and UglifyJS too. Given that, I found this answer for removing console.log in a general Vue/webpack project: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/webpack-simple/issues/21
... but if that's how, where does that go within Quasar since there is no webpack config file? I imagine in the quasar.conf.js file (since I see an 'extendWebpack' line in there - sounds promising). Or is there a better way to do it? How do other people remove console.log in production when using Quasar? Or handle logging without it?
Thanks!

Answer 1

https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/quasar-conf-js#Property%3A-build
quasar.conf.js:
module.exports = function (ctx) {
return {
...
build: {
...
uglifyOptions: {
compress: { drop_console: true }
}
},
}
}
The above will result in configuring terser plugin with the following:
terserOptions: {
compress: {
...
drop_console: true
},
(https://github.com/terser/terser#compress-options)
(you can see the generated config with quasar inspect -c build -p optimization.minimizer)
You still also need to remove the eslint rule to avoid build errors, see https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar/issues/5529
Note:
If you want instead to configure webpack directly use:
quasar.conf.js:
module.exports = function (ctx) {
return {
...
build: {
...
chainWebpack (chain) {
chain.optimization.minimizer('js').tap(args => {
args[0].terserOptions.compress.drop_console = true
return args
})
}
},
}
}
It will do the same as above.
See https://quasar.dev/quasar-cli/cli-documentation/handling-webpack
and https://github.com/neutrinojs/webpack-chain#config-optimization-minimizers-modify-arguments
https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar/blob/dev/app/lib/webpack/create-chain.js#L315

Answer 2

1 Edit package.json in Vue's project what had created it before.
2 Then find "rules": {}.
3 Change to this "rules":{"no-console":0}.
4 if you Vue server in on, off it and run it again. Then the issue will be done.

Answer 3

As an alternative I can suggest using something like loglevel instead of console.log. It's quite handy and allows you to control the output.