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.

7 Answers

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

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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);

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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

5

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.

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

0

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

1

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

1

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
> js@1.0.0 build /home/user/repositories/myproject/js
> webpack -v
4.42.0

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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