Typeissue with Webpack v4 (Cannot find module 'webpack5' or its corresponding type declarations)

We’re using Webpack v4 in our projekt. Now our typecheck fails with:

$ tsc --noEmit
node_modules/esbuild-loader/dist/minify-plugin.d.ts(3,27): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'webpack5' or its corresponding type declarations.
error Command failed with exit code 2.

Might be related to this: https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/blob/develop/src/minify-plugin.ts#L5-L6

This loader seems to solve it with this: https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/blob/develop/package.json#L58

I guess we could also install webpack v5. But only to fix typings this seems a bit weird. You have any ideas how this could be solved or changed? If you can point to the right direction I’m happy to provide a PR.

[privatenumber]

Fixed for Webpack 4 in v2.6.3 via https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader/pull/78

LMK if anyone has ideas on how to interop with Webpack v5 as well

[deleonio]

Esbuild-loader is a webpack extension.

Webpack can not be a dependency of esbuild-loader.

Webpack must be a devDep and peerDep of esbuild-loader.

Prease remove webpack from the deps.