files in output will been default exclude?

[qinyang912]

I want to delete files in output path, but I see the source code has auto ignore the files in output path

// exclude files
const excludePatterns = [
  outputPath,
  ...this.options.exclude.map(name => path.join(outputPath, name)),
  ...assetNames.map(name => path.join(outputPath, name))
]

[AMontagu]

Look like my problem.
I need to delete a file generated by webpack but it seem ignored by this plugin:

===== Del Webpack Plugin ===
Added files:
tmp/something.js
main.js

Deleted files:
tmp
============================

[jackypan1989]

You mean you wanna delete some new generated files by webpack?

[qinyang912]

@jackypan1989 yes
I'm using webpack to develop a library, the webpack config look like:

{
  entry: {
    'main': './src/index.js',
    'core': ['a.scss', 'b.scss']
  },
  output: {
    filename: '[name].js',
    library: 'Test',
    path: './dist'
  },
  plugins: [
    new ExtractTextPlugin({
      filename: '[name].css',
    })
  ]
}

when build, will generate three files in output path:

main.js
core.js
core.css

I wanna customize the name of css file, so I must import all scss files in an entry, but this will generate a useless javascript file, so I wanna delete core.js

[AMontagu]

almost the same for me. I use webpack to bundle multiple web application but some are just html/css/js so no need of main.js file created by webpack.

[jackypan1989]

I will checkout this issue soon.

[qinyang912]

@jackypan1989 thanks.

[jackypan1989]

https://github.com/jackypan1989/del-webpack-plugin/releases/tag/v1.1.0

You can set keepGeneratedAssets to false now,
and all generated filed will not be excluded by default.

Notice: You may need to write some exclude patterns to keep files.