# Is the Webpack Demo broken?

**URL:** <https://community.bitmovin.com/t/is-the-webpack-demo-broken/3809>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Tags:** bitmovin-player, bitmovin\
**Created:** [September 30, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/is-the-webpack-demo-broken/3809 "2025-09-30T09:27:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@work](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/work)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/is-the-webpack-demo-broken/3809/1 "2025-09-30T09:27:15Z")

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The [Webpack Demo](https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-web-samples/tree/main/webpack-demo) is very old now and was written for Node 16. I’ve updated it for Node 22 but it still doesn’t build properly. There are hundreds of errors in bundle.js and the output webpage is a mess.

Has anyone succeeded in getting a basic player working with modern Weback/Node?

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.bitmovin.com/daniel/32/121_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/is-the-webpack-demo-broken/3809/2 "2025-10-07T11:57:22Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for reporting, the demo was indeed not working anymore on recent Node versions as the build tools were outdated. This is resolved now with [Update webpack demo by dweinber · Pull Request #75 · bitmovin/bitmovin-player-web-samples · GitHub](https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-web-samples/pull/75) .

> <https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-web-samples/pull/75>
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> The Webpack Demo was outdated and the build steps were not working anymore on re…cent node.js versions

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**Author:** ![work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@work](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/work)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/is-the-webpack-demo-broken/3809/3 "2025-10-07T13:09:24Z")

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Wow! That’s good service - thank you. I’ll give it a go.