Drop spdy in favor of `node:http2`

[talentlessguy]

Modification Proposal

Remove spdy and use node built-in http2 server. spdy is broken since node 16 (source. Perhaps node:http2 could be wrapped in a way that it would be compatible with express.

Expected Behavior / Situation

Usage of http2 in favor spdy. Support for http2 and deprecation of spdy.

Actual Behavior / Situation

Lack of http2 option and only support for spdy.

Please paste the results of npx webpack-cli info here, and mention other relevant information

Relevant discussions/PRs:

• http/2 initiative  expressjs/express#5462
• Support http/2. expressjs/express#3730

[Abdulkhan104]

basically its issue solve type the command :::- npm config set legacy-peer-deps true

[alexander-akait]

We already support http2 out of box, but only for custom application (which support it), example for connect https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/tree/master/examples/server/http2

built-in http2 server

You can use pure http2 server using the server option like here https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/blob/master/examples/app/hono/webpack.config.js#L35C5-L35C11

spdy will removed in the next major release

Unfortunately express doesn't support http2, so it will not work

[kimyu-ng]

@alexander-akait For webpack-dev-server v5, are we sure the documentation for HTTP2 is correct with nested server key?

Does specifying http2 equivalent to supporting both HTTP2 and HTTPS2?

const connect = require("connect");

module.exports = {
  // ...
  devServer: {
    server: {
      server: "http2",
      app: () => connect(),
    },
  },
};

Shouldn't it be

const connect = require("connect");

module.exports = {
  // ...
  devServer: {
    server: {
      type: "http2",
    },
   app: () => connect(),
  },
};

Here is the snippet how https works with SSL.

    server: {
      type: 'https',
      options: {
        key: resolve(__dirname, join('some', 'path', 'dev.key')),
        cert: resolve(__dirname, join('some.', 'path', 'dev.crt')),
        ca: resolve(__dirname, join('som', 'path', 'dev.ca.pem')),
      },
    },

How would it work for HTTP2 with SSL configuration? Any guidance would be highly appreciated

[alexander-akait]

@kimyu92 Can you show me where we have bad documentation? For options you can use:

server: {
      type: 'http2',
      options: {
        key: resolve(__dirname, join('some', 'path', 'dev.key')),
        cert: resolve(__dirname, join('some.', 'path', 'dev.crt')),
        ca: resolve(__dirname, join('som', 'path', 'dev.ca.pem')),
      },
    },

[kimyu-ng]

Not sure it's typo or what but it wasn't clear how to cooperate with SSL as well

https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/tree/master/examples/server/http2

[kimyu-ng]

Aside from the example above, in the official documentation, there is no http2 option listed at https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserverserver

On top of that, there is also no explanation of requestCert: true, which misled ppl to think that it's required as part of SSL config

[alexander-akait]

@kimyu92 You can send a PR to update our docs, look like yes, we forgot to add it