In range update for webpack-dev-server does not work

[paulkaplan]

Expected Behavior

Please describe what should happen

Clean install right now gives [email protected], which does not compile correctly when using npm start.

Actual Behavior

Describe what actually happens

I'm on [email protected], which works. Had to downgrade from 2.9.4 (which is in-range for the package.json) to 2.4.1 to get npm start to work.

Steps to Reproduce

Explain what someone needs to do in order to see what's described in Actual behavior above

Try updating webpack-dev-server to most recent version.

Operating System and Browser

e.g. Mac OS 10.11.6 Safari 10.0

Mac OS Sierra

[paulkaplan]

The cause of the failure on newer versions of webpack-dev-server is this error:
webpack/webpack-dev-server#1101

Note the caveats section of https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server#caveats

May need to update uglifyjs?