Install Webpack-CLI

To install the webpack-cli, we need the first to install the webpack. If you don’t installed webpack then first install webpack.

Also, If you don’t have any sample project then create a sample project for webpack.

Now, We are ready to install the webpack-cli.

npm install webpack-cli --save-dev

Or, Use below shorthand command:

npm i webpack-cli --save-dev

E.g.

c:\xampp\htdocs\tutorials\webpack-tutorial  (webpack-tutorial@1.0.0)
? npm i webpack-cli --save-dev
...
+ webpack-cli@3.3.12
added 572 packages from 358 contributors and audited 575 packages in 176.855s

21 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

We have now successfully installed webpack-cli.

We can see the webpack-cli into the devDependencies from the package.json file as below:

{
  ..
  "devDependencies": {
    "webpack-cli": "^3.3.12"
  }
}