why does webpack gives error when run npm run dev

Question

I'm trying to run "npm run dev" in my laravel project but there is an error occured that saying: Error: Cannot find module 'webpack-cli/package.json' Require stack:

• C:\Users\abdal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_npx\20792\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:965:15) at Function.resolve (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:78:19) at runCli (C:\Users\abdal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_npx\20792\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js:50:26) at C:\Users\abdal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_npx\20792\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js:139:5 at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND', requireStack: [ 'C:\Users\abdal\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\20792\node_modules\webpack\bin\webpack.js' ] }

Note that the webpack cli has been downloaded.

Answer 1

Just follow this below steps:

1. Clear the log file resides on the directory(*****\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs)
2. npm i -g webpack-cli [Execute this command]
3. npm install && npm run dev

Answer 2

Try running the following.

npm install -g webpack-cli