[Snyk] Security upgrade webpack-dev-server from 2.9.7 to 3.11.3

[snyk-bot]

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	696/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-ANSIHTML-1296849	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: webpack-dev-server

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• aa3cddc chore(release): 3.11.3
• 4fef67b fix: replace `ansi-html` with `ansi-html-community` (#4011)
• 5cb545f chore(release): 3.11.2
• a5fe337 fix: cli arguments for `serve` command
• 7e70eee chore(release): 3.11.1
• 78dde50 fix: vulnerable deps (#2949)
• 4837dc9 fix: the `open` option works using `webpack serve` without value (#2948)
• 4ab1f21 chore(release): 3.11.0
• 0e51fb1 fix: invalidate route (#2584)
• f857c40 chore: deps and tests
• 41d1d0c fix(deps): security vulnerability in yargs-parser (#2566)
• 375ab23 ci: add node@14 (#2530)
• 776e7d4 chore(deps): update dependency html-entities to ^1.3.1 (master) (#2513)
• 984536c chore: update lint-staged config (#2524)
• 89ffb86 feat: add invalidate endpoint (#2493)
• 0e9bffb chore(deps): update all patch dependencies (#2508)
• 99ccfd8 fix: update jquery (#2516)
• 06583f2 fix: do not swallow errors from server (#2512)
• 0d5c681 fix(server): don't crash on setupExitSignals(undefined) (#2507)
• c436058 chore(deps): update all patch dependencies (master) (patch) (#2503)
• 4808abd feat(progess): emit progress-update (#2498)
• adeb92e feat: allow open option to accept an object (#2492)
• c6bdfe4 feat(contentBasePublicPath): allow multiple paths (#2489)
• f317358 chore(deps): update all patch dependencies (master) (patch) (#2481)

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