Feature request: clean from outside of the project root as well.

[rbatllet]

My target build is outside the project root and the previous build can not be cleaned (it's skipped). Please add an option to force to clean the target folder.

[chrisblossom]

Please provide more information on how you are trying to clean outside the "target folder"?

See:
tests.js#L61-L67
#17
#18

[rbatllet]

Here it is:

const targetPath = '../test-webapp/src/main/resources/public/frontend';

module.exports = function() {
  return webpackMerge(commonConfig, {
    ...
    plugins: [
      new CleanWebpackPlugin(['dist', targetPath], {
        root: process.cwd()
      })
    ],
  });
};

[rbatllet]

It does work:

const basePath = __dirname;
const targetPath = '../test-webapp/src/main/resources/public/frontend';
const targetFolder = 'dist';

module.exports = function() {
  return webpackMerge(commonConfig, {
    ...
    plugins: [
      new CleanWebpackPlugin([targetFolder], {
        root: basePath + '/' + targetPath
      })
    ],
  });
};

Thank you!