It's dosen't work sometimes about clean-webpack-plugin HOT 8 CLOSED

I fixed it. Just I added dist/*.* where*.*means remove all files inside this folder. You can find more about it in the documentation. It's was very confused and frustrated because the documentation mark it like an option but it's my opinion is strictly needed due to it was the only way the plugin works right to me.

Also I retreive the version webpack 3.5.6

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Hello folks, try setup root at the options, thats works for me, because I split the plugins in another file and added it into a sub-folder:

module.exports = function({ path }) {
    
    const plugins = [
        new CleanWebpackPlugin(['dist'], {
            root: path
        }),
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
            template: 'src/index.html',
            inject: 'body'
        }),
        new ExtractTextPlugin({
            filename: '[name].[hash].css'
        })
    ];

    return plugins;
}

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I've managed to consistently reproduce the problem.
I'm using http-server to serve my dist folder.
cmd and powershell locks the directory path, so, when this plugin tries to remove the folder it fails, but doesn't generate any error.
I think a better approach is to remove the contents of the folder instead of removing the folder itself.

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Is this still happening?

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I am learning webpack and follow the guide about OutManagement. Definitely, this clean-webpack-plugin doesn't work the folder dist never was cleaned. Besides, it runs properly under console without errors notification.

clean-webpack-plugin 0.1.17
webpack 3.6.0

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I'm getting this same problem. In my case, the ./junk/index.html file does not get cleaned, but everything else does.

I am certain it is not getting removed (as opposed to me thinking it doesn't get removed but really it's just getting replaced upon rebuild too fast for me to notice) because I checked the created and modified time stamps.

Here's my webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  name: 'client',
  target: 'web',
  entry: {
    clientIndex: path.join(__dirname, 'src', 'clientIndex.js')
  },
  output: {
    filename: './public/[name].bundle.js',
    path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
    publicPath: '/'
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js(?:x?)$/, // match .js files and .jsx files
        include: [/src/],
        loader: 'babel-loader'
      }
    ]
  },
  resolve: {
    // Make the webpack resolver look for .jsx files (in addition to defaults),
    // so you can import a .jsx file without specifying the extension
    extensions: ['.js', '.json', '.jsx']
  },
  plugins: [
    new CleanWebpackPlugin(
      [
        'dist/*.*',
        'dist/public/*.*',
        'junk/index.html'
      ],
      {
        root: __dirname,
        exclude: '.gitkeep',
        verbose: true
        // set watch: true ??
      }
    ),
    new CopyWebpackPlugin([
      // The "to:" paths are relative to the "output.path:" directory
      {from: 'src/server.js', to: './server.js'},
      {from: 'src/config.js', to: './config.js'}
    ]),
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      template: 'src/index.html.template',
      // The "filename" path is relative to "output.path"
      filename: '../junk/index.html'
    })
  ]
}

If I change CleanWebpackPlugin's array of paths to clean from containing 'junk/index.html' to 'junk/*.html', it works. However, I don't want to delete all .html files in that directory--just junk/index.html.

Environment / Versions:
Mac
Node 9.8.0
webpack 3.11.0
clean-webpack-plugin 0.1.19

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BTW, this is its output (notice I have verbose: true):

clean-webpack-plugin: /Users/houli/docs/gitrepos/camp-trip-client/dist/*.* has been removed.
clean-webpack-plugin: /Users/houli/docs/gitrepos/camp-trip-client/dist/public/*.* has been removed.
clean-webpack-plugin: /Users/houli/docs/gitrepos/camp-trip-client/junk/index.html has been removed.
clean-webpack-plugin: 1 file(s) excluded - .

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The current version works well!

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