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 But I am amazed that the docs seems outdated.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

Webpack 4 docs are not ready yet. I recently migrated from webpack 3 to 4 and it took me quite some time to figure out all the issues.

Here'a my sample repo you can use as reference for migrating from webpack 3 to 4.

https://github.com/flexdinesh/react-redux-boilerplate

There's one commit specific for migration. Take a look at that for more info.