PNPM - Receiving a error that chalk could not be found

[sadsa]

When using the PNPM package manager, any dependencies not explicitly mentioned in the package.json will be ignored at time of package installation.

The following code (found in node_modules\webpack-version-file-plugin\index.js) make the following reference to the chalk package.

const fs = require('fs');
const _ = require('underscore');
const ejs = require('ejs');
const chalk = require('chalk');

Webback build throws the error Cannot find module: 'chalk'. Make sure this package is installed. because the package was never installed due to no mention of it in the package.json

The fix, is to add chalk as a dependency or as a peerDependency in the package.json.

[sadsa]

In the interim, I am patching this dependency using the pnpmfile.js as documented on the PNPM website here. PNPM is stricter than more popular package managers such as NPM and/or Yarn but is more performant in many ways.