vue add [plugin name] doesnt work

[riyasat]

Hi,
I had started using Vue/Cli v3.0 it looks awesome except it doesn't work for 3rd party plugins e.g when I try to install webpack-obfuscator with
$ vue add webpack-obfuscator

I get following error.

Installing vue-cli-plugin-webpack-obfuscator...

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found: vue-cli-plugin-webpack-obfuscator@latest

I thought it might be this package doesn't exist in NPM but when I install with NPM install webpack-obfuscator it does install the plugin to node_modules.

Even though I installed it with NPM I am not able to invoke the plugin using vue.config.js. my config looks like

module.exports = {
  configureWebpack: {
    plugins: [
      new JavaScriptObfuscator(
        {
          rotateUnicodeArray: true,
          renameGlobals: true,
          stringArray: true,
          stringArrayEncoding: true,
          stringArrayThreshold: 0.5,
          target: "browser"
        },
        ["static/js/vendor**", "static/js/manifest**"]
      )
    ]
  }
};

I am struggling to install 3rd party plugins in VUE project. Please suggest how can I use 3rd party plugins. I had read documentation carefully but the provided guide lines doesn't work for me. I tried

vue add vue-container
vue add vue-i18n

with few others but none of them seems to work.

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Got the same issue ... but I guess you wil not get into it !

[Akryum]

Any npm package is not necessary a vue-cli plugin. vue add and vue invoke only work with vue-cli plugins.

[yyx990803]

vue add is only for vue-cli plugins. For webpack plugins you still install them with npm or yarn...

this not the issue I guess, once installed w npm/yan , hos to add them into the webpack config... ?
module.exports = {
configureWebpack: {
plugins: [
new JavaScriptObfuscator(

[riyasat]

@Erwin16 You have to add
var JavaScriptObfuscator = require('webpack-obfuscator');
before you use

module.exports = {
configureWebpack: {
plugins: [
new JavaScriptObfuscator(

all plugins you installed with npm/yarn should work as expected.