Is extract-text-webpack-plugin still maintained?

No — extract-text-webpack-plugin stopped being maintained around February 2018. extract-text-webpack-plugin's own maintainers named mini-css-extract-plugin as the successor.

• successor named by the maintainers
• high confidence
• package successor

What should I use instead of extract-text-webpack-plugin?

extract-text-webpack-plugin's own maintainers named mini-css-extract-plugin as the successor. mini-css-extract-plugin is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.

How to migrate from extract-text-webpack-plugin to mini-css-extract-plugin

Replace ExtractTextPlugin.extract({ ... }) rules with MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader at the head of the CSS loader chain and add new MiniCssExtractPlugin({ filename: '[name].css' }).

Why extract-text-webpack-plugin is on this list

extract-text-webpack-plugin never reached a stable webpack 4 release — it stopped at 4.0.0-beta.0 in February 2018, after the last stable 3.0.2 in October 2017 — and webpack-contrib deprecated it on npm in favour of mini-css-extract-plugin. The newer plugin extracts per module rather than per chunk, which is what makes hot reloading and on-demand CSS loading work.

The succession is settled: primary sources agree and the ecosystem has already moved.

extract-text-webpack-plugin alternatives

The dataset lists no second option: mini-css-extract-plugin is where the ecosystem went, and nothing else has meaningful adoption.

Check your own project for extract-text-webpack-plugin

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If extract-text-webpack-plugin is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

• npm deprecation notice for extract-text-webpack-plugin (points at mini-css-extract-plugin)npmjs.com
• webpack docs: MiniCssExtractPluginwebpack.js.org

Packages related to extract-text-webpack-plugin

• uglifyjs-webpack-pluginSuccessor named by the maintainers: terser-webpack-plugin · unmaintained since July 2019
• glamorousSuccessor named by the maintainers: @emotion/react · unmaintained since December 2018
• postcss-cssnextSuccessor named by the maintainers: postcss-preset-env · unmaintained since May 2018
• babel-preset-es2015Successor named by the maintainers: @babel/preset-env · unmaintained since April 2017
• create-react-appSuccessor named by the maintainers: vite · unmaintained since February 2025

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.