clean-webpack-plugin should be an internal webpack plugin

[yoavain]

Feature request

What is the expected behavior?

1. clean-webpack-plugin should work with TypeScript configuration
2. clean-webpack-plugin should be maintained since it is recommended in the documentation:
   https://webpack.js.org/guides/output-management/#cleaning-up-the-dist-folder

What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?

1. Last version of clean-webpack-plugin was published in May 2019
2. There's a typing bug in that repo from October 2019 that is not addressed and prevent using TypeScript configuration:
   The typings issue while upgrade to webpack@5.1.3 johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin#188

How should this be implemented in your opinion?
Repo should be forked and published as an internal webpack plugin.
Alternatively, recommend a different plugin that can work with TypeScript

Are you willing to work on this yourself?
maybe

[sokra]

Yes, we are actually planning to make this an integrated feature with output.clean: true, but we are not there yet.

see #11561

[alexander-akait]

Improved #11561

[alexander-akait]

We have dry and keep options, also we remove only webpack assets for perf reasons, so we strongly recommend to use copy-webpack-plugin to copy assets, so I think we can close original issue, if you have problems or idea to improvements, please open the new issue