docs: compression-webpack-plugin is folded into minimizer-webpack-plugin

[alexander-akait]

Summary

compression-webpack-plugin is deprecated: minimizer-webpack-plugin compresses now, through MinimizerPlugin.compress as an asset generator, so minifying and compressing are one plugin over one pass and one cache. This treats it the way the site already treats the other folded minimizers — excluded from the generated plugin pages, and redirected.

The redirect points at the section showing both shapes, since that is the question anyone arriving from the old page has: /plugins/minimizer-webpack-plugin/#compressing-with-minifying-and-without. The MinimizerPlugin row in the plugins index links there too, and the plugin's entries in the index table and in Awesome webpack are removed.

Depends on webpack/compression-webpack-plugin#436 and webpack/minimizer-webpack-plugin#743, which add the deprecation notice and that section.

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

docs.

Did you add tests for your changes?

n/a.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

No. /plugins/compression-webpack-plugin keeps working, as a redirect.

If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?

Documented here.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Removed the standalone Compression Plugin entry from the Webpack Plugins resources and plugin table.
  • Updated the Minimizer Plugin description to explain its minification and compression capabilities, with a link to compression guidance.
  • Reformatted the Output and assets plugin table for improved readability.

• Bug Fixes

  • Added a redirect from the former Compression Plugin documentation URL to the relevant Minimizer Plugin compression section.

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Walkthrough

The change removes standalone CompressionWebpackPlugin entries from the resource and plugin documentation. It updates the MinimizerPlugin description to include compression support. It excludes the compression plugin from generated plugin data and redirects its documentation URL to the corresponding minimizer plugin section.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8b94e

The existing compression-plugin URL can redirect users to a missing documentation page; correcting the target is advisable before merge.

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