Inline stream-cache code, use another module, or convince maintainer to republish

[exogen]

The current version of stream-cache was published with a version of npm that didn't have the benefit of today's default .npmignore. As a result the package mistakenly contains ~220K of backup/undo files, which every webpack-dev-server user is unfortunately getting.

I've opened an issue with stream-cache here, but it's possible it may never be republished.

I wonder if there's a more modern module that does the same thing, or whether equivalent code would be simple to inline in webpack-dev-server?

webpack and webpack-dev-server version:
webpack-dev-server: 1.15.x and 2.x

[SpaceK33z]

Would you have time to do a PR for this? I'll review it asap.

[exogen]

@SpaceK33z Can't today but I'll try this week!

[SpaceK33z]

@exogen, what is your plan with this? Since the author of stream-cache probably isn't going to do anything. Are you going to look into other packages, or write something yourself?

[SpaceK33z]

Apparently the stream-cache package isn't even necessary at all. Less code in lib/Server.js + one less dependency = win :).