Setup without warnings (defaults to production mode)

[andreasnilssondev]

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Node Version: 8.9.0
• NPM Version: 6.1.0
• webpack Version: 4.24.0
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.1.10

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Expected Behavior

When following the setup instructions in the readme I want to have webpack-dev-server running without any warnings or errors.

Actual Behavior

I end up with a warning because webpack-dev-server is in production mode.

WARNING in configuration The 'mode' option has not been set, webpack will fallback to 'production' for this value.

Please note that in readme it says: "This should be used for development only."

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

I would love one of the following:

• change the readme instructions to include the --mode=development. Instead of letting people get a warning because of incorrect setup, and have to figure out a solution themselves (not obvious to everyone that webpack-dev-server takes the same flags as webpack).

• This was already rejected, but I think it's highly related and deserves to be an option, so please see this as very respectfully and carefully mentioned: Revisit Default mode to development? #1327 (Default mode to development?), read the comments, and consider the number of 👍 vs 👎 and see if maybe it's reasonable to reconsider this request. If not, could we please have a slightly more detailed explanation to help us understand the issues? You never know, maybe someone has a different idea that would work for everyone. But to get there, they need to know the problem.

And of course either way: Thank you for a great plugin, only getting better!

[alexander-akait]

@nAndreas Feel free to send a PR

[andreasnilssondev]

Thank you @evilebottnawi

Just to be sure, do you want the documentation update or setting development by default? 😃

[alexander-akait]

@nAndreas based on user experience, we need implement development by default (don't forget respect mode from configuration)