disable console instead of dropping

client/src/onload/console.js

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+/**
+ * This module disables the console in production,
+ * and adds the ability to toggle console logging
+ * using the global functions
+ * enableDebugging() and disableDebugging()
+ */
+import { useLocalStorage } from "@vueuse/core";
+import { watch } from "vue";
+
+export function overrideProductionConsole() {
+    let defaultEnabled = true;
+
+    if (process.env.NODE_ENV == "production") {
+        defaultEnabled = false;
+    }
+
+    const isEnabled = useLocalStorage("console-debugging-enabled", defaultEnabled);
+
+    let storedConsole = null;
+
+    const disableConsole = () => {
+        storedConsole = console;
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-global-assign
+        console = {};
+        Object.keys(storedConsole).forEach((key) => {
+            console[key] = () => {};
+        });
+    };
+
+    const enableConsole = () => {
+        if (storedConsole) {
+            // eslint-disable-next-line no-global-assign
+            console = storedConsole;
+        }
+    };
+
+    watch(
+        () => isEnabled.value,
+        (enabled) => {
+            if (enabled) {
+                enableConsole();
+            } else {
+                disableConsole();
+            }
+        },
+        { immediate: true }
+    );
+
+    window.enableDebugging = () => {
+        isEnabled.value = true;
+    };
+
+    window.disableDebugging = () => {
+        isEnabled.value = false;
+    };
+}

client/src/onload/index.js

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import "./publicPath";
 // Default Font
 import "@fontsource/atkinson-hyperlegible";
 
+import { overrideProductionConsole } from "./console";
+
 // Module exports appear as objects on window.config in the browser
 export { standardInit } from "./standardInit";
 export { initializations$, addInitialization, prependInitialization, clearInitQueue } from "./initQueue";
@@ -21,6 +23,8 @@ export { getRootFromIndexLink } from "./getRootFromIndexLink";
 // Client-side configuration variables (based on environment)
 import config from "config";
 
+overrideProductionConsole();
+
 if (!config.testBuild === true) {
     console.log(`Galaxy Client '${config.name}' build, dated ${config.buildTimestamp}`);
     console.debug("Full configuration:", config);

client/webpack.config.js

@@ -37,16 +37,7 @@ module.exports = (env = {}, argv = {}) => {
     if (targetEnv == "production") {
         minimizations = {
             minimize: true,
-            minimizer: [
-                new TerserPlugin({
-                    terserOptions: {
-                        compress: {
-                            drop_console: true,
-                        },
-                    },
-                }),
-                new CssMinimizerPlugin(),
-            ],
+            minimizer: [new TerserPlugin(), new CssMinimizerPlugin()],
         };
     } else {
         minimizations = {