Hello guys, today we will learn about how to fix the error “Cannot find module ‘html-webpack-plugin‘” in JavaScript. The error always appears when trying to use the plugin ‘html-webpack-plugin‘, but we forget to install the plugin in your project. Read to the end of the article. We will show you the cause and how to fix this error.
The cause of this error.
The error “Cannot find module ‘html-webpack-plugin‘” appears when you use the “html-webpack-plugin” plugin in your code but have not installed it before.
Make sure the plugin is installed on your project.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="header">LearnShareIT</h1>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>script.js
// The error will show when you try to use this plugin but not install it yet
const pluginHTML = require("html-webpack-plugin");
// Using the html-webpack-plugin, arrange html files in a certain order
module.exports = {
entry: "script.js",
plugins: [
new pluginHTML({
filename: "index.html",
}),
],
};
console.log(
"The Html-webpack-plugin plugin is used to arrange Html files in a certain order"
);Output
The error will show if you try to run this code.
Error: Cannot find module 'html-webpack-plugin'To Deal with the “cannot find module ‘html-webpack-plugin’” error
To fix this error, you must make sure that the plugin 'html-webpack-plugin' is installed first. After that, we call it out to arrange Html files in a certain order, and it will help to optimize HTML files more.
What is the html-webpack-plugin?
The html-webpack-plugin plugin is used to arrange HTML files in a certain order, helping to optimize the HTML file content more.
The purpose of this plugin is to help webpack automatically generate one or more Html files (advanced) and link modules after build. In addition, it can optimize and use environment variables in the output Html file.
Make sure to install the plugin before using it.
To deal with the error “cannot find module ‘html-webpack-plugin‘”. First, we open the terminal command and run this code
npm i --save-dev html-webpack-plugin
. Then call it out to arrange index.html files in a certain order.
script.js
// The error will show when you try to use this plugin but not install it yet
const pluginHTML = require("html-webpack-plugin");
// Using html-webpack-plugin arrange html files in a certain order
module.exports = {
entry: "script.js",
plugins: [
new pluginHTML({
filename: "index.html",
}),
],
};
console.log(
"The Html-webpack-plugin plugin is used to arrange Html files in a certain order."
);Output
The Html-webpack-plugin plugin is used to arrange Html files in a certain order. Summary
The error “cannot find module ‘html-webpack-plugin‘ ” in JavaScript occurs when you try to use the html-webpack-plugin plugin, but you did not install it first. You must run the npm i --save-dev html-webpack-plugin code in your terminal command to do it. If you have any questions, Don’t hesitate and leave your comment below.
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