Outdated version of package "del" causes TypeScript project compile failures

[josundt]

Issue description or question

clean-webpack-plugin's dependency to package "del": "^4.1.1" now causes TypeScript compilation failure in projects that has a more recent version of glob or minimatch installed.

del<=4.1.1 pulls in and outdated version of @types/glob as dependency - this should have been a devDependency.
This has been fixed in more recent version of del.

Right now, clean-webpack-plugin causes TypeScript build failure unless skipLibCheck compiler option is set to true.
Please fix by updating del to a latest (or more recent) version!

[TripleSpeeder]

As this seems pretty much unmaintained, any recommendations how to work around? Is there a for existing with this issue solved?

[josundt]

@TripleSpeeder You can set output.clean to true in webpack config instead now....

[TuckerWhitehouse]

Posting the typescript error in the hopes others may more-easily discover this in the future.

error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'minimatch'.
  The file is in the program because:
    Entry point for implicit type library 'minimatch'