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webpack-dev-server outputPath error

See original GitHub issue

On command npm run hot I’m getting this error:

ERROR in [copy-webpack-plugin] Using older versions of webpack-dev-server, devServer.outputPath must be defined to write to absolute paths

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:22 (8 by maintainers)

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acachacommented, Jan 30, 2017

Still having same problem with version:

$npm list webpack-dev-server
/home/sergi/Code/scool/curriculum_test
└─┬ laravel-mix@0.5.16
  └── webpack-dev-server@2.2.0

@JeffreyWay please I think you have to reopen this issue

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JeffreyWaycommented, Apr 20, 2017

Fixed in 329ed0ccffb51d52111ec11359f2617c528c60c0

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