Laravel 5.6 gives error when running watch

I'm running npm run watch but there is an error I can't find out can anyone help me out?? My Webpack version is "webpack": "^5.31.0" laravel version 5.6 I cant find out

    D:\xampp\htdocs\f-gitzjoy>npm run watch

> @ watch D:\xampp\htdocs\f-gitzjoy
> cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js
      profile: { '$ref': '#/definitions/Profile' },
      recordsInputPath: { '$ref': '#/definitions/RecordsInputPath' },
      recordsOutputPath: { '$ref': '#/definitions/RecordsOutputPath' },
      recordsPath: { '$ref': '#/definitions/RecordsPath' },
      resolve: { '$ref': '#/definitions/Resolve' },
      resolveLoader: { '$ref': '#/definitions/ResolveLoader' },
      snapshot: { '$ref': '#/definitions/SnapshotOptions' },
      stats: { '$ref': '#/definitions/StatsValue' },
      target: { '$ref': '#/definitions/Target' },
      watch: { '$ref': '#/definitions/Watch' },
      watchOptions: { '$ref': '#/definitions/WatchOptions' }
    }
  },
  headerName: 'Webpack',
  baseDataPath: 'configuration',
  postFormatter: [Function: postFormatter]
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @ watch: `cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ watch script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\msdev\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-04-09T07_15_46_836Z-debug.log

via Chebli Mohamed