Mark a method or a function as dev-only in TypeScript?

Question

Is there a ready to use way to mark some method or function inside my TypeScript code as for development/debug only, so that it doesn't go into production code when compiled with Webpack?

Something like as comments are cut out of the code.

I have some functions I use sometimes to debug the app, but not used in production. I would like to not comment them out for production because someone else in the team can decide to remove this code as outdated when see it commented.

Answer 1

TypeScript does not have a way of doing this out the box, but you can achieve it by using a task runner, such as gulp and using a plugin like this.

I've not really used Webpack before, but I found a plugin that allows you to remove functions from code here.