Webpack-dev-server: Node.js 14 compatibility warning related to outdated chokidar and fsevents

[nstuyvesant]

• Operating System: macOS 10.15.5
• Node Version: 14.4.0
• NPM Version: 6.14.5
• webpack Version: 4.43.0
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.11.0
• Browser: Safari 13.1.1

• [ ] This is a bug
• [x] This is a modification request

Code

[email protected] /Users/nates/dev/fast-form
├─┬ @vue/[email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]

Expected Behavior

npm install webpack-dev-server --saveDev
no warnings

Actual Behavior

npm install webpack-dev-server --saveDev
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: fsevents 1 will break on node v14+ and could be using insecure binaries. Upgrade to fsevents 2.

For Bugs; How can we reproduce the behavior?

npm install webpack-dev-server --saveDev

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

Confidence using webpack-dev-server with Node.js 14.
[email protected] uses [email protected] and avoids this problem.

[alexander-akait]

Fixed for v4, not release yet

[xiaoxiangmoe]

When will v4 release? @evilebottnawi

[frankstepanski]

Is there an update?

[KevinTCoughlin]

Is there an ETA now that Node 14 is LTS?

[AlmirKadric]

@nstuyvesant poke regarding this, what is the current ETA for version 4?