However, the "blessed" library that Webpack Dashboard uses _is_ impressive: https://github.com/chjj/blessed
That's an ncurses-like library with some really nice features. I will be using it.
For you, but not others.
https://github.com/FormidableLabs/webpack-dashboard
It replaces the endlessly scrolling output of webpack-dev-server with a dashboard, providing at-a-glance info.
And I appreciate the aesthetics, nice looking things motivate me to work, so that's a bonus too. Anybody who says this is superficial doesn't know how humans think, and shouldn't be allowed to do UI/UX design.
I wouldn't be using blessed to replace "noisy and scrolly" but rather to replace Qt for some simple-but-not-trivial scripts.