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What happens to webpack 4 in webpack 5?


Asked by Jase Cantu on Dec 14, 2021 FAQ



In the next major version webpack 4 support will be removed. In case you do have custom webpack configuration, either through custom plugins or your own modifications you'll have to take a few steps to ensure your applications works with webpack 5. When using next-transpile-modules make sure you use the latest version which includes this patch
In addition,
When migrating to v5 make sure that your webpack 4 build doesn’t print deprecation warnings. If you’re experiencing issues regarding errors try to omit the stats option or don’t use a preset. That said, things are still in pre-release stages so it is always best to ask the webpack team via GitHub.
Also, At its core, webpack is a static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications. When webpack processes your application, it internally builds a dependency graph from one or more entry points and then combines every module your project needs into one or more bundles, which are static assets to serve your content from.
And,
This isn’t a bug; it’s a correct warning because your dependency graph is invalid. you have webpack 5, but v3.7.2 of webpack-dev-middleware requires webpack 4. Your choices are to downgrade to webpack 4, upgrade to a version (of available) of webpack-dev-middleware that supports webpack 5, or remove webpack-dev-middleware entirely.
In fact,
These dependencies form a dependency graph. The default entry point for webpack (since version 4) is src/index.js, and it's configurable. webpack can have multiple entry points. The output is where the resulting JavaScript and static files are collected during the build process.