Learn Build Tools: Rock, Paper, Bundle Project extra dependencies required to run

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#1

Learn Build Tools - Off-Platform Project: Rock, Paper, Bundle

https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-build-tools/articles/build-tools-webpack-project

Basically, I completed the entire project but it would not open properly in the browser when I ran ‘npm run start’
I diffed my files against the solution code and couldn’t find any significant differences. However, I did find a workaround. Installing html-webpack-plugin with npm and then importing it and pasting the following snippet into the webpack.config.js in the module.exports obect.

output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, "dist"),
    filename: "main.js",
  },
  plugins: [new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: "./index.html" })],

After doing this, npm run start worked perfectly. I’m not sure why this is the case, but if anyone else has difficulty with it, this was how I solved it. (with the help of stackoverflow, of course)

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#2

yeah something is up with this project. i tried to run build and am getting a ‘field browser doesn’t contain a valid alias configuration’ i even changed the folder structure to src and dragged everything in so the file paths would be correct and no dice.