Error: Loading PostCSS Plugin failed: Cannot find module &#0

Expected behavior

I expected it to work

Actual behavior

Failed to compile.

./node_modules/mdbvue/lib/css/mdb.min.css (./node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--6-oneOf-3-1!./node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-loader/src??ref--6-oneOf-3-2!./node_modules/mdbvue/lib/css/mdb.min.css)
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-loader/src/index.js):
Error: Loading PostCSS Plugin failed: Cannot find module 'autoprefixer'
Require stack:
- /app/noop.js

(@/app/node_modules/mdbvue/package.json)
    at load (/app/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-load-config/src/plugins.js:28:11)
    at /app/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-load-config/src/plugins.js:53:16
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at plugins (/app/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-load-config/src/plugins.js:52:8)
    at processResult (/app/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-load-config/src/index.js:33:14)
    at /app/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/node_modules/postcss-load-config/src/index.js:94:14

Resources (screenshots, code snippets etc.)

I just bought the full pro advanced Vue version to gain advantages over the free version.

However, I have battled to get this to work out the box.

Running via docker (same setup as other projects and that I used on the free version), the docker image build as follows [and here: https://gist.github.com/MarkCenturion/325d4f86daf6e62442257d919d33be02]

# Docker image extension of node image to solve the "too many files" error in the watcher during serve development runs
# sudo docker build -t markh/npm-file-watch:latest .

FROM node:16.3.0-alpine3.13
LABEL maintainer="Mark Hewitt <mark.hewitt@centurionsolutions.com.au>"

# attempt to fix the Cypress 1281 error, didn't help, needed to update Vue e2e Cypress
RUN mkdir /root/.cache
RUN chmod a+rwx /root/.cache

# for MDB pro toolkit - need python2
RUN apk add --no-cache python2

RUN echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
RUN echo "fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Image is run via:

# docker-compose.yml

# allow running composer / npm from shell against a version of PHP/Node not installed on the
# host server, useful when for example dev/testing against newer PHP versions using docker
# to run the web server, but want to run composer directly from the terminal and no from inside
# the docker container itself (just a convinence feature)

# keep this file in the aplication root directory not the Docker directory

version: '3'
services:
  composer:
    image: composer:2.1.1
    environment:
      - COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR=/app/.cache/composer
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    restart: never
  npm:
    image: markh/npm-file-watch:latest
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    network_mode: host
    restart: never
    working_dir: /app
    entrypoint: npm


sudo /usr/local/bin/docker-compose run npm install
sudo /usr/local/bin/docker-compose run npm start

The install did not work well, Cypress was old (has the 1281 issue, unable to write to /root/.cache/Cypress), also node-sass (node-gyp) was outdated and build failed.

I had to (not sure if this causes the issue) update some of the packages:

...
  "devDependencies": {
...
    "@vue/cli-plugin-e2e-cypress": "^4.5.13",
...
    "node-sass": "^6.0.1",
...
  },
...

It finally installed, running npm run start however generates the error above?

Any ideas (also wondering a little why this did not install right out the box, given it was a paid for pro package, unless it is the new Node version causing issues)?