How to determine the installed webpack version

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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

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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

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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    lt projectName gt   lt projectVersion gt   path to project  -- webpack  lt version-range gt    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     lt version-range gt                            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   lt  scope gt    lt name gt    lt version gt     lt field gt    lt subfield gt           For webpack use   npm view webpack version

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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    cd  node modules webpack package json  Open the package json file and look under version

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If using Angular CLI v7   the webpack version is printed in the output of ng version   - gt  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

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For those who are using yarn  yarn list webpack will do the trick    yarn list webpack yarn list v0 27 5  - webpack 2 6 1 Done in 1 24s

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webpack 4 now offers a version property that can be used

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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    gt  npm run build   gt  js 1 0 0 build  home user repositories myproject js  gt  webpack -v  4 42 0

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