html-webpack Build Step Fails Node 17+

[davidcooper1]

Description

Right now the README specifies Node 14+. However, there is an error with the currently used version of html-webpack-plugin when used with Node 17. It results in a digital envelope routines::unsupported error. From what I've read, updating webpack and html-webpack-plugin versions may fix this issue.

Program Versions:

Node 17.5.0
OpenSSL 1.1.1k

Reference webpack/webpack#14532

[gcampbell-msft]

Could be loosely related to #1442

[gcampbell-msft]

@davidcooper1 If it's possible, a current workaround could be to downgrade your Node installation. However, we will try and look into this some in the near future and see if we can establish a possible longer-term solution.

[fearthecowboy]

It would appear that webpack 4 breaks on Node 17+ -- the longer term solution would be to potentially upgrade to webpack 5 - but this is probably a bit of work.

Since Node 17 isn't a stable branch, and ... really there's not a lot of benefit to using node 17 during development anyway, I don't see that this is anything that needs to be instantly addressed.