UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY webpack@2.2.0-rc.3

When I try to install laravel-mix via npm install laravel-mix --save-dev I always get the following error message: UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY webpack@2.2.0-rc.3 and at the bottom: npm WARN extract-text-webpack-plugin@2.0.0-beta.4 requires a peer of webpack@^2.1.0-beta.19 but none was installed. npm WARN webpack-dev-server@2.1.0-beta.12 requires a peer of webpack@^2.1.0-beta.26 but none was installed.

I run this in a fresh installation of Homestead and got into the vm via vagrant ssh.

[JeffreyWay]

Yeah, I’d nuke the node_modules directory and try again.

[konovalov-nk]

@QWp6t This is some kind of circular dependency. I had to fix it like this:

npm install -g webpack@^2.2.0-rc.3
npm install
npm install webpack@^2.1.0-beta.28 webpack-dev-server@2.1.0-beta.12

Otherwise, I couldn’t use features like HMR because npm install -g webpack web-dev-server gives me webpack version 1.x

Spent like 8 hours trying to understand why HMR was not working and it because laravel-mix doesn’t install webpack and it’s dependencies correctly (installs webpack version 1.x for me on Ubuntu 16.04 by default using npm install -g webpack web-dev-server, but HMR doesn’t actually update Vue modules). From the user standpoint, I don’t want even care about the dependency packages, but without these packages, it’s impossible to use the feature properly and I don’t understand why it’s not actually required.