Webpack: Must i specify the domain in publicPath for url() directive to work in CSS?

Question

My problem is that if I don\'t specify the complete domain in output.publicPath config option; then the url don\'t load properly (at least fonts).

My webpack config:

Answer 1

Found it. Thanks to @diunarlist on webpack's gitter.

It's because i was using sourceMap with style-loader. Check https://github.com/webpack/style-loader/issues/55

With source-maps, style loader uses a Blob, so it requires absolute urls to work.

Without source-maps it uses an inline style tag, so there is no problem.