refactor: reduce loops

packages/generators/src/index.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class GeneratorsCommand {
           configs: [{ type: "string" }],
           description: "Type of template",
           defaultValue: "default",
+          helpLevel: "minimum",
         },
         {
           name: "force",
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ class GeneratorsCommand {
             },
           ],
           description: "Generate without questions (ideally) using default answers",
+          helpLevel: "minimum",
         },
       ],
       async (generationPath: string, options: InitOptions) => {
@@ -76,6 +78,7 @@ class GeneratorsCommand {
           configs: [{ type: "string" }],
           description: "Type of template",
           defaultValue: "default",
+          helpLevel: "minimum",
         },
       ],
       async (outputPath: string, options: LoaderOptions) => {
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ class GeneratorsCommand {
           configs: [{ type: "string" }],
           description: "Type of template",
           defaultValue: "default",
+          helpLevel: "minimum",
         },
       ],
       async (outputPath: string, options: PluginOptions) => {

packages/webpack-cli/src/types.ts

@@ -144,12 +144,12 @@ interface WebpackCLIBuiltInFlag {
   describe?: string;
   negatedDescription?: string;
   defaultValue?: string;
+  helpLevel: "minimum" | "verbose";
 }
 
 interface WebpackCLIBuiltInOption extends WebpackCLIBuiltInFlag {
   hidden?: boolean;
   group?: "core";
-  helpLevel?: "minimum" | "verbose";
 }
 
 type WebpackCLIExternalCommandInfo = Pick<WebpackCLIOptions, "name" | "alias" | "description"> & {

packages/webpack-cli/src/webpack-cli.ts

@@ -388,13 +388,15 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
           },
         ],
         description: "To get the output in a specified format ( accept json or markdown )",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "additional-package",
         alias: "a",
         configs: [{ type: "string" }],
         multiple: true,
         description: "Adds additional packages to the output",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
     ];
   }
@@ -810,6 +812,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         ],
         multiple: true,
         description: "Provide path to a webpack configuration file e.g. ./webpack.config.js.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "config-name",
@@ -820,6 +823,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         ],
         multiple: true,
         description: "Name of the configuration to use.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "merge",
@@ -831,6 +835,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
           },
         ],
         description: "Merge two or more configurations using 'webpack-merge'.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "disable-interpret",
@@ -841,6 +846,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
           },
         ],
         description: "Disable interpret for loading the config file.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       // Complex configs
       {
@@ -888,6 +894,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         },
         multiple: true,
         description: "Environment passed to the configuration when it is a function.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "node-env",
@@ -898,6 +905,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         ],
         multiple: false,
         description: "Sets process.env.NODE_ENV to the specified value.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "define-process-env-node-env",
@@ -909,6 +917,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         multiple: false,
         description:
           "Sets process.env.NODE_ENV to the specified value. (Currently an alias for `--node-env`)",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
 
       // Adding more plugins
@@ -922,6 +931,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         ],
         multiple: false,
         description: "It invokes webpack-bundle-analyzer plugin to get bundle information.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "progress",
@@ -935,6 +945,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
           },
         ],
         description: "Print compilation progress during build.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
 
       // Output options
@@ -951,6 +962,7 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
         ],
         alias: "j",
         description: "Prints result as JSON or store it in a file.",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
       {
         name: "fail-on-warnings",
@@ -961,11 +973,11 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
           },
         ],
         description: "Stop webpack-cli process with non-zero exit code on warnings from webpack",
+        helpLevel: "minimum",
       },
     ];
 
     const minimumHelpFlags = [
-      ...builtInFlags.map((flag) => flag.name),
       "mode",
       "watch",
       "watch-options-stdin",
@@ -979,37 +991,18 @@ class WebpackCLI implements IWebpackCLI {
 
     // Extract all the flags being exported from core.
     // A list of cli flags generated by core can be found here https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/main/test/__snapshots__/Cli.basictest.js.snap
-    const coreArguments = Object.entries(this.webpack.cli.getArguments()).map(([flag, meta]) => {
-      const inBuiltIn = builtInFlags.find((builtInFlag) => builtInFlag.name === flag);
-
-      if (inBuiltIn) {
-        return {
-          ...meta,
-          // @ts-expect-error this might be overwritten
-          name: flag,
-          group: "core",
-          ...inBuiltIn,
-          configs: meta.configs || [],
-        };
-      }
-
-      return { ...meta, name: flag, group: "core" };
-    });
-
-    const options: WebpackCLIBuiltInOption[] = ([] as WebpackCLIBuiltInFlag[])
-      .concat(
-        builtInFlags.filter(
-          (builtInFlag) =>
-            !coreArguments.find((coreArgument) => builtInFlag.name === coreArgument.name),
-        ),
-      )
-      .concat(coreArguments)
-      .map((option): WebpackCLIBuiltInOption => {
-        (option as WebpackCLIBuiltInOption).helpLevel = minimumHelpFlags.includes(option.name)
-          ? "minimum"
-          : "verbose";
-        return option as WebpackCLIBuiltInOption;
-      });
+    const options = builtInFlags.concat(
+      Object.entries(this.webpack.cli.getArguments()).map<WebpackCLIBuiltInOption>(
+        ([name, meta]) => {
+          return {
+            ...meta,
+            name,
+            group: "core",
+            helpLevel: minimumHelpFlags.includes(name) ? "minimum" : "verbose",
+          };
+        },
+      ),
+    );
 
     this.builtInOptionsCache = options;
 

test/build/json/logging.config.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 module.exports = {
+  mode: "development",
   infrastructureLogging: {
     level: "log",
   },