unable to see request logs in webpack-dev-server

Question

I am using webpack-dev-server to act as a CDN server locally to serve various static assets like css, js, html etc.

Everything runs fine but for debugging p

Answer 1

Basically, webpack-dev-server uses express to spawn a webserver. To enable seeing logs, one needs to set DEBUG environment variable as required by express

export DEBUG='express:*'

This started showing me logs of various requests received by webpack-dev-server.

To disable the logs, set the environment variable empty again

export DEBUG=

This works even for loopback projects and any other NodeJS frameworks which use express as base.