Requires wrong version of webpack when two are present in project, compilation fails

[boutell]

Please see:

webpack/webpack#12606

Because a single major version of this loader supports three different major versions of webpack, but assumes that "require" will find the right one, it will find the wrong one if the project level and a dependency of the project depend on different versions of webpack as described in that issue.

In this comment:

webpack/webpack#12606 (comment)

(And some of the related comments)

... A better resolution is proposed, but requires implementation here now that webpack has done their bit starting in webpack 5 to make it possible to find what you need without using "require".

html-webpack-plugin used to have a similar issue, but in their new major release they only list webpack 5 as a compatible peer dependency. That strategy also solves the issue.

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