diff --git a/dotnet-core/package.json__if_webpack b/dotnet-core/package.json__if_webpack
deleted file mode 100644
index 4eb7a78..0000000
--- a/dotnet-core/package.json__if_webpack
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "clean-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.0"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/webpack/package.json b/webpack/package.json
index 8cfedfc..eb5d8ba 100644
--- a/webpack/package.json
+++ b/webpack/package.json
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
     "mini-css-extract-plugin": "^2.9.2",
     "aurelia-webpack-plugin": "^5.0.6",
     "duplicate-package-checker-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.0",
-    "clean-webpack-plugin": "^4.0.0",
     "webpack": "^5.97.1",
     "webpack-cli": "^5.1.4",
     "webpack-dev-server": "^5.2.0",
diff --git a/webpack/webpack.config.js b/webpack/webpack.config.js
index 44b749e..83cb826 100644
--- a/webpack/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack/webpack.config.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ const { AureliaPlugin } = require('aurelia-webpack-plugin');
 const { ProvidePlugin } = require('webpack');
 // @endif
 const { BundleAnalyzerPlugin } = require('webpack-bundle-analyzer');
-const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
 
 // config helpers:
 const ensureArray = (config) => config && (Array.isArray(config) ? config : [config]) || [];
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ module.exports = ({ production }, { analyze, hmr, port, host }) => ({
   },
   mode: production ? 'production' : 'development',
   output: {
+    clean: true,
     path: outDir,
     publicPath: baseUrl,
     filename: production ? '[name].[chunkhash].bundle.js' : '[name].[fullhash].bundle.js',
@@ -349,13 +349,6 @@ module.exports = ({ production }, { analyze, hmr, port, host }) => ({
         { from: 'static', to: outDir, globOptions: { ignore: ['.*'] } }
       ]
     }), // ignore dot (hidden) files
-    ...when(analyze, new BundleAnalyzerPlugin()),
-    /**
-     * Note that the usage of following plugin cleans the webpack output directory before build.
-     * In case you want to generate any file in the output path as a part of pre-build step, this plugin will likely
-     * remove those before the webpack build. In that case consider disabling the plugin, and instead use something like
-     * `del` (https://www.npmjs.com/package/del), or `rimraf` (https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf).
-     */
-    new CleanWebpackPlugin()
+    ...when(analyze, new BundleAnalyzerPlugin())
   ]
 });