Unable to install optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin

Question

My error when trying to install npm install --save-dev optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin

npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: [email protected]
npm ERR! Found: [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/webpack
npm ERR!   dev webpack@"^5.33.2" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer webpack@"^4.0.0" from [email protected]
npm ERR! node_modules/optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin
npm ERR!   dev optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin@"*" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! See C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\npm-cache\eresolve-report.txt for a full report.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-04-16T17_32_37_320Z-debug.log

I have already updated webpack and npm. I checked the installation page and it mentions that I should have the most recent webpack. Any ideas?

Answer 1

From going to the github repo, they actually mention to use css-minimizer-webpack-plugin for webpack 5.0