webpack-dev-server → webpack-serve

[sapegin]

webpack-dev-server is in maintenance mode, webpack-serve is a newer faster alternative. It work only in webpack 4, so we have to wait until #915.

[everdimension]

By the way, shouldn't webpack be listed in either peerDependencies or dependencies?

[sapegin]

Nope, because we should support tools like Create React App that have their own webpack, so you don't have it as a dependency of your project. But if Styleguidist couldn't load webpack, it will ask you to install it.

[everdimension]

Thing is, you rely on webpack either way. But you rely on it implicitly.

I updated my project to webpack v4 and now I see warnings because webpack-dev-middleware and webpack-dev-server, which you have as dependencies, need webpack <=3.

If you had webpack v3 as an explicit dependency, npm would just install it alongside my webpack v4.

But because you do not specify webpack in dependencies, I'm stuck with the warning (styleguidist still works, though).

[sapegin]

We support webpack 3 and 4, so you’ll likely see some warnings in both cases, but it works somehow. We’ll drop webpack 3 as soon as CRA supports webpack 4, but there are other issues with that (like #987), and then we could upgrade dependencies and get rid of warnings.

[marcofugaro]

Not anymore, webpack-serve has been deprecated

https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-serve

[sapegin]

@marcofugaro Awesome, let's close this then ;-)