Issue when building with rspack and TypeScript 5.x: "Cannot find module 'events'"

[rudolfolah]

I'm building project that uses sanitize-html, which relies on htmlparser2.

The error during the rspack build was this:

ERROR in ./node_modules/sanitize-html-react/node_modules/htmlparser2/lib/Parser.js 133:28-58
  ❌ Module not found: Can't resolve 'events' in ...
[133:28]
}

require("inherits")(Parser, require("events").EventEmitter);

Parser.prototype._updatePosition = function(initialOffset) {

The fix that I found was to install the events package.

From what I can see, the package is using the 8.x version of htmlparser2, and the latest version of htmlparser2 is 10.x. I do not know if a version upgrade would fix the issue.

A mention of this in the README, that the "events" module is needed if it isn't part of the bundler/build system, could be useful.