webpack is not recognized as a internal or external command,operable program or batch file

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Better solution to this problem is to install Webpack globally.

This always works and it worked for me. Try below command.

npm install -g webpack

As an alternative, if you have Webpack installed locally, you can explicitly specify where Command Prompt should look to find it, like so:

node_modules\.bin\webpack

(This does assume that you're inside the directory with your package.json and that you've already run npm install webpack.)

I had this issue for a long time too. (webpack installed globally etc. but still not recognized) It turned out that I haven't specified enviroment variable for npm (where is file webpack.cmd sitting) So I add to my Path variable

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\

If you are using Powershell, you can type the following command to effectively add to your path :

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "$env:Path;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\", "User")

IMPORTANT : Don't forget to close and re-open your powershell window in order to apply this.

npm install -g webpack-dev-server will solve your issue

Try deleting node_modules in local directory and re-run npm install.

Maybe a clean install will fix the problem. This "command" removes all previous modules and re-installs them, perhaps while the webpack module is incompletely downloaded and installed.

npm clean-install