No more UI without --verbose?

[JamesMGreene]

PR #229 reduced verbosity by so much than a normal use of this plugin no longer produces any UI feedback unless the --verbose flag is set. This is confusing and doesn't offer any worthwhile benefit that I can see.

Running normally:

Running "uglify:dist" (uglify) task

Running with --verbose:

Running "uglify" task

Running "uglify:dist" (uglify) task
Verifying property uglify.dist exists in config...OK
Files: dist/document.currentScript.js -> dist/document.currentScript.min.js
Options: banner="", footer="", compress={"warnings":false}, mangle={}, beautify=false, report="min", expression=false, preserveComments="some"
Minifying with UglifyJS...Reading dist/document.currentScript.js...OK
OK
Writing dist/document.currentScript.min.js...OK
File dist/document.currentScript.min.js created: 4.93 kB → 2.06 kB

Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Node v0.10.28, grunt-cli@0.1.13, grunt@0.4.5, grunt-contrib-uglify@0.5.1

[UltCombo]

Isn't there any guideline for verbosity in grunt-contrib plugins? Creating one would avoid all these discussions.

Anyway, I believe most users want feedback when files are written to disk, so .log is more suitable here imho.

//cc @sindresorhus

[sindresorhus]

I'm done discussing this on a myriad a plugins time and time again. Please bring this up on the main grunt issue tracker so there can be something coherent among the contrib plugins ;)

Fwiw, the opinion on verbose or minimal by default is like 50-50.

[vladikoff]

@sindresorhus yeap 100% agree with your comment. One thing we need to fix though is to show how many files created:

This is a bit ugly right now:

Reopening until we fix that.

[sindresorhus]

I also feel like we have a lot of duplicated code in plugins. We use grunt.file.write. Why can't the file count be shown automatically or with a simple method. More guidelines and DRYing would be nice.

[vladikoff]

Output fixed in 0.6.0

[JamesMGreene]

Thanks, @vladikoff! ❤️

[davegreenwp]

I've just upgraded to 0.6.0 and I'm still only getting 'X files created': is this an ongoing problem? I just want to see the size change in the output :/

Cheers,
Dave

[JamesMGreene]

@davetgreen: Before this fix, you wouldn't have even saw "X files created" but yes, it would be nice to also get the size outputs back in there like they used to be, especially since there is a config option controlling that which is essentially being ignored. 😲

[joaovieira]

👍 what @JamesMGreene said: having the reports back would be nice.

[prionkor]

+1 The compression report should be shown like cssMin