I'm also in favor in this, I've always removed the .enableBuildNotifications() from the configuration file and the webpack-notifier dependency.

I never found those notifications very useful, but that's just my opinion.

I'm fine with disabling by default - it would be over in the recipe - https://github.com/symfony/recipes/blob/main/symfony/webpack-encore-bundle/1.10/webpack.config.js - we could also then remove https://github.com/symfony/recipes/blob/main/symfony/webpack-encore-bundle/1.10/package.json#L12

Cheers!

Thank you for this issue.
There has not been a lot of activity here for a while. Has this been resolved?

No

@jennevdmeer are you willing to contribute to remove this from the recipe (see the links in @weaverryan's comment above for the places needing to be changed) ?

Edit: those links go to the recipe for the 1.10 version, while changes now should be done in the recipe for the highest version, which means the 2.0 recipe now (or in all versions)

@stof I could, thought about it with the new notice. But I wanted to create a similar message to those "enableSassLoader requires sass use npm i sass sass-loader --save-dev" like messages when you would enable it and start the dev server. Which I would assume would be a good idea to add for this too then. I wanted to look at it but haven't had the time to figure that out yet.

If you think the message is not needed I can just do it tomorrow'ish.

@jennevdmeer Encore already makes the build notifications optional (and disabled by default), with such a message if the dependency is missing.
build notifications are only enabled by default in the recipe, not in Encore.