Webpack not excluding node_modules

Question

I\'m using webpack for a Node framework that I\'m building (though I should probably use gulp, admittedly). When I include the EJS module, webpack includes it in the compile

Answer 1

From your config file, it seems like you're only excluding node_modules from being parsed with babel-loader, but not from being bundled.

In order to exclude node_modules and native node libraries from bundling, you need to:

1. Add target: 'node' to your webpack.config.js. This will exclude native node modules (path, fs, etc.) from being bundled.
2. Use webpack-node-externals in order to exclude other node_modules.

So your result config file should look like:

var nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals');
...
module.exports = {
    ...
    target: 'node', // in order to ignore built-in modules like path, fs, etc. 
    externals: [nodeExternals()], // in order to ignore all modules in node_modules folder 
    ...
};

Answer 2

This worked for me:

exclude: [/bower_components/, /node_modules/]

module.loaders

A array of automatically applied loaders.

Each item can have these properties:

test: A condition that must be met

exclude: A condition that must not be met

include: A condition that must be met

loader: A string of "!" separated loaders

loaders: A array of loaders as string

A condition can be a RegExp, an absolute path start, or an array of one of these combined with "and".

See http://webpack.github.io/docs/configuration.html#module-loaders

Answer 3

If you ran into this issue when using TypeScript, you may need to add skipLibCheck: true in your tsconfig.json file.

Answer 4

Try use absolute path:

exclude:path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules")

Answer 5

try this below solution:

exclude:path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules")