Error: Cannot find module 'webpack/lib/rules/DescriptionDataMatcherRulePlugin' Require stack:

Question

I have webpack-cli installed on my laravel project. I don't know why first of all we need it to run my vue app but this is causing an error:

When I run npm run dev or npm run hot

[webpack-cli] Error: Cannot find module 'webpack/lib/rules/DescriptionDataMatcherRulePlugin'
Require stack:
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\vue-loader\lib\plugin-webpack5.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\vue-loader\lib\plugin.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\vue-loader\lib\index.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\laravel-mix\src\components\Vue.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\laravel-mix\src\components\ComponentRegistrar.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\laravel-mix\src\Mix.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\laravel-mix\setup\webpack.config.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\webpack-cli\lib\webpack-cli.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\webpack-cli\lib\bootstrap.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\cli.js
- C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:902:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:746:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:93:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Viruss\Desktop\test-meme-library\meme-library\node_modules\vue-loader\lib\plugin-webpack5.js:6:42)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\vue-loader\\lib\\plugin-webpack5.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\vue-loader\\lib\\plugin.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\vue-loader\\lib\\index.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\laravel-mix\\src\\components\\Vue.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\laravel-mix\\src\\components\\ComponentRegistrar.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\laravel-mix\\src\\Mix.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\laravel-mix\\setup\\webpack.config.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\webpack-cli\\lib\\webpack-cli.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\webpack-cli\\lib\\bootstrap.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\webpack-cli\\bin\\cli.js',
    'C:\\Users\\Viruss\\Desktop\\test-meme-library\\meme-library\\node_modules\\webpack\\bin\\webpack.js'
  ]
}

Vue is installed also vue-loader, can't understand why it can't find those files. Also, I looked at the node_modules everything is in there ...

Answer 1

You need to update your vue-loader

npm update vue-loader

And if it is not installed, install it

npm i vue-loader

Answer 2

Laravel added the 15.9.7 version of Vue-loader by default. I have to manually update the vue-loader:^15.9.8 in the package JSON to solve the error.

Then do yarn and yarn dev or npm install and npm run dev