🙋 Allow logger to be configured about appending vs. cleaning console

[mohsen1]

🙋 Development Logging without cleaning console

Currently when running Parcel in development mode, logger will clean up console on each build. It's usually desired to have a clean console but when integrating with other tools such as VSCode, it's desired to have output of logger concatenated to previous logs instead of clearing the console. VSCode uses output of a program in "tasks" to determine if a task is ready or not. With current setup VSCode is not capable of doing that.

🤔 Expected Behavior

Have a config for logger (maybe level 4) where all logs persist

😯 Current Behavior

Logger clears the console

🔦 Context

microsoft/vscode#6209 (comment)
https://github.com/mohsen1/parcel-react-typescript-vscode

💻 Examples

[Morgul]

You could, technically, do process.env['FORCE_COLOR'] = 0; before importing parcel, and that should turn off the clearing behavior. It's an ugly hack, but I think it should work.

Edit: Just looked at the issues, and misunderstood, thought you were asking for a code api. In your case, it looks like you can use environment variables, so just set FORCE_COLOR to 0. That's what I do for Webstorm.

Either way, I'd love to see more documentation, an api, and a commandline flag for this.

[DeMoorJasper]

Duplicate of #993