Issues with getting started with webpack 4

Question

I am following the tutorial exactly as given here . But I am amazed that the docs seems outdated. e.g

npx webpack src/index.js dist/bundle.js fails with

Answer 1

Got the same issue and after a bit of research found its a problem to be fixed as you can see on this Github thread

One of the options:

Inside package.json set scripts to either development or production mode

"scripts": {
  "dev": "webpack --mode development",
  "build": "webpack --mode production"
}

And now when you run npm run dev it will give you bundle.js but not minified.

But when you run npm run build it will give you a minified bundle