New project from npx makes fails

[ivanbacher]

OS: Mac OS 10.15.7
Node version: 15.6.0
NPM version: 7.5.2

npx makes aurelia

[makes] Using remote skeleton github:aurelia/new
[makes] Fetching tarball https://codeload.github.com/aurelia/new/tar.gz/master

Default ESNext Aurelia 2 App

npm install
npm start

➜ npm start

> [email protected] start
> webpack serve

｢wds｣: Project is running at http://localhost:9000/
｢wds｣: webpack output is served from /
｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from /Users/ivan/Desktop/test
｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to /index.html
｢wdm｣: wait until bundle finished: /

(node:29075) [DEP_WEBPACK_COMPILATION_ASSETS] DeprecationWarning: Compilation.assets will be frozen in future, all modifications are deprecated.
BREAKING CHANGE: No more changes should happen to Compilation.assets after sealing the Compilation.
        Do changes to assets earlier, e. g. in Compilation.hooks.processAssets.
        Make sure to select an appropriate stage from Compilation.PROCESS_ASSETS_STAGE_*.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

｢wdm｣: asset entry-bundle.js 3.09 MiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset index.html 532 bytes [emitted]
runtime modules 937 bytes 4 modules
modules by path ./node_modules/@aurelia/ 1.04 MiB 130 modules
modules by path ./src/ 1.89 KiB
  modules by path ./src/*.js 393 bytes 2 modules
  modules by path ./src/*.css 1.04 KiB
    ./src/my-app.css 398 bytes [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js??ruleSet[1].rules[4].use[2]!./src/my-app.css 664 bytes [built] [code generated]
  ./src/my-app.html 478 bytes [built] [code generated]
modules by path ./node_modules/css-loader/dist/runtime/*.js 3.78 KiB
  ./node_modules/css-loader/dist/runtime/cssWithMappingToString.js 2.21 KiB [built] [code generated]
  ./node_modules/css-loader/dist/runtime/api.js 1.57 KiB [built] [code generated]
./node_modules/aurelia/dist/esm/index.js 15.2 KiB [built] [code generated]
./node_modules/style-loader/dist/runtime/injectStylesIntoStyleTag.js 6.67 KiB [built] [code generated]

ERROR in   Error: The loader "/Users/ivan/Desktop/test/node_modules/html-webpack-plugin/lib/loader.js!/Users/ivan/Desktop/test/index.ejs" didn't return html.
  
  - index.js:336 HtmlWebpackPlugin.evaluateCompilationResult
    [test]/[html-webpack-plugin]/index.js:336:24
  
  - index.js:243 
    [test]/[html-webpack-plugin]/index.js:243:22
  
  - runMicrotasks
  
  - task_queues:94 processTicksAndRejections
    node:internal/process/task_queues:94:5
  
  - async Promise.all
  
  - async Promise.all

[3cp]

Confirm it's related to some breaking change in latest webpack 5.22.0.
You can bypass this issue for now with npm i -D [email protected].

The related issue: jantimon/html-webpack-plugin#1603

[3cp]

Update: not webpack 5.22.0, but upgrading html-webpack-plugin fixes this issue.