Webpack command fails after running the Aurelia template

[pottereric]

I am running on a windows machine and I was in an empty folder. I exectued the "yo aspnetcore-spa" command and selected "Aurelia". While yeoman was running I got the following error:

Error: Module 'c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\css\index.js' is not a loader (must have normal or pitch function)
at loadLoader (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\loadLoader.js:35:10)
at iteratePitchingLoaders (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:164:2)
at iteratePitchingLoaders (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:160:10)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:180:6
at runSyncOrAsync (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:119:12)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:170:3
at loadLoader (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\loadLoader.js:36:3)
at iteratePitchingLoaders (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:164:2)
at runLoaders (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:357:2)
at NormalModule.doBuild (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:131:2)
at NormalModule.build (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:179:15)
at Compilation.buildModule (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:127:9)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:306:10
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:74:13
at NormalModuleFactory.applyPluginsAsyncWaterfall (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\tapable\lib\Tapable.js:123:70)
at onDoneResolving (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:49:11)
at onDoneResolving (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:165:6)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:161:6
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:3853:9
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:484:16
at iteratorCallback (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:1084:13)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:988:16
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:3850:13
at apply (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:41:25)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:76:12
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:484:16
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:1161:9
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:484:16
at iteratorCallback (c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:1084:13)
at c:\Projects\fwdevcon\audemo\node_modules\webpack\node_modules\async\dist\async.js:988:16
module.js:471

When I attempt to run the project with "dotnet run" I get errors becuase resources are missing from the dist directory.

[pottereric]

On my machine, the generator seems to work when I get webpack 2.1.0-beta.25 and it fails when I have 2.1.0-beta.27.

[MarkPieszak]

There are lots of hidden errors with certain versions of 2.* Webpack, for now I'd either stick with 1.* or -beta.25 if that works (it's what I've been sticking with for a while).

[SteveSandersonMS]

Thanks for letting us know about this!

Having the dependency on Webpack 2 beta does create risks like this, which is why most of the templates are sticking with Webpack 1 until v2 is properly released. Unfortunately the v2 dependency can't be avoided in the Aurelia template.

I've modified the Aurelia template package.json to strictly force its local copy of Webpack to be 2.1.0-beta.25 (not any later beta). We'll have to update this manually if some later beta turns out to be needed later. Hopefully Webpack v2 will ship for real soon!