Webpack 2: How to exclude all node_modules except for

Question

I need to have babel run on /node_modules/identicons/ However I still want to exclude all other packages.

Reason is the identicons package

Answer 1

You could exclude everything from node_modules that is not identicons:

exclude: /node_modules\/(?!identicons$)/

Answer 2

Another way:

exclude: [
  {
    test: [
      path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules'),
    ],
    exclude: [
      path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules/MODULE_TO_INCLUDE'),
      path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules/ANOTHER_MODULE_TO_INCLUDE'),
    ]
  }
]

It worked for me.

Answer 3

Exclude whole node_modules folder, except required module:

{
  test: /\.js$/,
  exclude: /node_modules\/(?!identicons\/).*/,
}

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2031#issuecomment-219040479

Answer 4

I think you can use regex, something like

exclude: [
  /node_modules\/(?!identicons).*/
]