webpack hangs at on “95% emit” / “95% emitting”

Question

This is my production webpack config. The two quotes in the title refer to webpack2 and webpack respectively. Both hang for me with a similar error.

This is my command t

Answer 1

In my case (Windows environment and laravel-mix) there weren't any incorrect characters in the path, since even a dead simple configuration didn't work. It was just webpack (webpack@3.12.0) doing something stupid of his own and the problem has been solved using publicPath option like this:

mix.options({
    publicPath: ('./')
});

which according to the documentation:

allows you to specify the base path for all the assets within your application

Alternatively you can use:

mix.setPublicPath('./');