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doberkofler
doberkofler

Reputation: 10351

How to determine the installed webpack version

Especially during the transition from webpack v1 to v2, it would be important to programmatically determine what webpack version is installed, but I cannot seem to find the appropriate API.

Upvotes: 137

Views: 277851

Answers (8)

Fo Nko
Fo Nko

Reputation: 634

npm webpack --version

works for me and it throws something like:

PS C:\Users\alfon\OneDrive\Escritorio\sandbox\fimusicv4\with-redux-app> npm webpack --version npm WARN config global --global, --local are deprecated. Use --location=global instead. 8.5.5

Upvotes: -2

Isaac Pak
Isaac Pak

Reputation: 4951

Just another way not mentioned yet:

If you installed it locally to a project then open up the node_modules folder and check your webpack module.

< /node_modules/webpack/package.json

Open the package.json file and look under version

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Upvotes: 29

Ahmed Kamal
Ahmed Kamal

Reputation: 3000

In CLI

$ webpack --version
    
webpack-cli 4.1.0
    
webpack 5.3.2

In Code (node runtime)

process.env.npm_package_devDependencies_webpack // ^5.3.2

or

process.env.npm_package_dependencies_webpack // ^5.3.2

In Plugin

compiler.webpack.version // 5.3.2

Upvotes: 5

Sergey Chepurnov
Sergey Chepurnov

Reputation: 1447

Put webpack -v into your package.json:

{
  "name": "js",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "webpack -v",
    "dev": "webpack --watch"
  }
}

Then enter in the console:

npm run build

Expected output should look like:

> npm run build

> [email protected] build /home/user/repositories/myproject/js
> webpack -v

4.42.0

Upvotes: 4

trebor
trebor

Reputation: 1003

If using Angular CLI v7+, the webpack version is printed in the output of ng version:

-> ng version

     _                      _                 ____ _     ___
    / \   _ __   __ _ _   _| | __ _ _ __     / ___| |   |_ _|
   / △ \ | '_ \ / _` | | | | |/ _` | '__|   | |   | |    | |
  / ___ \| | | | (_| | |_| | | (_| | |      | |___| |___ | |
 /_/   \_\_| |_|\__, |\__,_|_|\__,_|_|       \____|_____|___|
                |___/


Angular CLI: 7.0.6
Node: 11.0.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 7.1.0
... animations, cdk, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, material, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.10.6
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.10.6
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.10.6
@angular-devkit/build-webpack     0.10.6
@angular-devkit/core              7.0.6
@angular-devkit/schematics        7.0.6
@angular/cli                      7.0.6
@ngtools/webpack                  7.0.6
@schematics/angular               7.0.6
@schematics/update                0.10.6
rxjs                              6.3.3
typescript                        3.1.6
webpack                           4.19.1

Upvotes: 9

doberkofler
doberkofler

Reputation: 10351

webpack 4 now offers a version property that can be used!

Upvotes: 9

Ricky Ruiz
Ricky Ruiz

Reputation: 26751

Version Installed:

Using webpack CLI: (--version, -v Show version number [boolean])

webpack --version

or:

webpack -v

Using npm list command:

npm list webpack

Results in name@version-range:

<projectName>@<projectVersion> /path/to/project
└── webpack@<version-range>

Using yarn list command:

yarn list webpack

How to do it programmatically?

Webpack 2 introduced Configuration Types.

Instead of exporting a configuration object, you may return a function which accepts an environment as argument. When running webpack, you may specify build environment keys via --env, such as --env.production or --env.platform=web.

We will use a build environment key called --env.version.

webpack --env.version $(webpack --version)

or:

webpack --env.version $(webpack -v)

For this to work we will need to do two things:

Change our webpack.config.js file and use DefinePlugin.

The DefinePlugin allows you to create global constants which can be configured at compile time.

-module.exports = {
+module.exports = function(env) {
+  return {
    plugins: [
      new webpack.DefinePlugin({
+        WEBPACK_VERSION: JSON.stringify(env.version) //<version-range>
      })
    ]
+  };
};

Now we can access the global constant like so:

console.log(WEBPACK_VERSION);

Latest version available:

Using npm view command will return the latest version available on the registry:

npm view [<@scope>/]<name>[@<version>] [<field>[.<subfield>]...]

For webpack use:

npm view webpack version

Upvotes: 208

gates
gates

Reputation: 4593

For those who are using yarn

yarn list webpack will do the trick

$ yarn list webpack
yarn list v0.27.5
└─ [email protected]
Done in 1.24s.

Upvotes: 25

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