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Webpack - Excluding node_modules with also keep a separated browser and server management

(webpack.config.js file content below)
I'm trying to make a webpack exclusion on node modules.
I found that using webpack-node-externals works for it but using that on my common config causes this other error:
Require is not defined on reflect-metadata - __webpack_require__ issue
So... I was wondering how can i exclude webpack bundling also on the browser side without getting any issue.
My webpack version: 3.11.0
webpack-config.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const merge = require('webpack-merge');
const AotPlugin = require('#ngtools/webpack').AotPlugin;
const CheckerPlugin = require('awesome-typescript-loader').CheckerPlugin;
var nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals');
module.exports = (env) => {
// Configuration in common to both client-side and server-side bundles
const isDevBuild = !(env && env.prod);
const sharedConfig = {
//externals: [nodeExternals()], // in order to ignore all modules in node_modules folder
stats: { modules: false },
context: __dirname,
resolve: { extensions: [ '.js', '.ts' ] },
output: {
filename: '[name].js',
publicPath: 'dist/' // Webpack dev middleware, if enabled, handles requests for this URL prefix
},
module: {
rules: [
{ test: /\.ts$/, use: isDevBuild ? ['awesome-typescript-loader?silent=true', 'angular2-template-loader', 'angular2-router-loader'] : '#ngtools/webpack' },
{ test: /\.html$/, use: 'html-loader?minimize=false' },
{ test: /\.css$/, use: [ 'to-string-loader', 'style-loader', isDevBuild ? 'css-loader' : 'css-loader?minimize' ] },
{ test: /\.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg)$/, use: 'url-loader?limit=25000' }
]
},
plugins: [new CheckerPlugin()]
};
// Configuration for client-side bundle suitable for running in browsers
const clientBundleOutputDir = './wwwroot/dist';
const clientBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
entry: { 'main-client': './ClientApp/boot.browser.ts' },
output: { path: path.join(__dirname, clientBundleOutputDir) },
plugins: [
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: __dirname,
manifest: require('./wwwroot/dist/vendor-manifest.json')
})
].concat(isDevBuild ? [
// Plugins that apply in development builds only
new webpack.SourceMapDevToolPlugin({
filename: '[file].map', // Remove this line if you prefer inline source maps
moduleFilenameTemplate: path.relative(clientBundleOutputDir, '[resourcePath]') // Point sourcemap entries to the original file locations on disk
})
] : [
// Plugins that apply in production builds only
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin(),
new AotPlugin({
tsConfigPath: './tsconfig.json',
entryModule: path.join(__dirname, 'ClientApp/app/app.browser.module#AppModule'),
exclude: ['./**/*.server.ts']
})
])
});
// Configuration for server-side (prerendering) bundle suitable for running in Node
const serverBundleConfig = merge(sharedConfig, {
resolve: { mainFields: ['main'] },
entry: { 'main-server': './ClientApp/boot.server.ts' },
plugins: [
new webpack.DllReferencePlugin({
context: __dirname,
manifest: require('./ClientApp/dist/vendor-manifest.json'),
sourceType: 'commonjs2',
name: './vendor'
})
].concat(isDevBuild ? [] : [
// Plugins that apply in production builds only
new AotPlugin({
tsConfigPath: './tsconfig.json',
entryModule: path.join(__dirname, 'ClientApp/app/app.server.module#AppModule'),
exclude: ['./**/*.browser.ts']
})
]),
output: {
libraryTarget: 'commonjs',
path: path.join(__dirname, './ClientApp/dist')
},
target: 'node',
externals: [nodeExternals()], // in order to ignore all modules in node_modules folder,
devtool: 'inline-source-map'
});
return [clientBundleConfig, serverBundleConfig];
};

GOT IT!
Before posting my solution, I'd like to thanks Aluan Haddad for his useful comment in my question above.
As suggested by Aluan, in fact, the problem was related to the need to use also a module loader, more than a module bundler.
So, the steps that I followed are these:
Installing requireJS ==> http://requirejs.org/docs/node.html
Removing externals: [nodeExternals()], // in order to ignore all modules in node_modules folder from my common webpack configuration and adding it under my server configuration (done before my question, but it's a really important step) [see webpack.config.js content in the question]
Adding target: 'node', before my externals point above, under my server side section (done before my question, but it's a really important step) [see webpack.config.js content in the question]
This makes sure that browser side keeps target:'web' (default target), and target becomes node just for the server.
launched webpack config vendor command manually from powershell webpack --config webpack.config.vendor.js
launched webpack config command manually from powershell webpack --config webpack.config.js
That worked for me! Hope It will works also for anyone else reading this question and encountering this issue!

webpack bundle.js not found - 404 error

I'm trying to learn Webpack configuration, and I keep getting errors in my console. It seems like my webpack app.bundle.js is not been found.
The page loads and the content of my html file displays, but not in the app.bundle.js or the html file in have in my dist directory, not untill i run mpm build.
below is the code for the webpack configuration and the error
// import node.js native path module
const path = require('path');
let webpack = require('webpack');
//require HtmlWebPackPlugin
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
//define constant for paths
const paths ={
DIST: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
SRC: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src'),
JS: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/js')
};
console.log(paths.DIST);
//webpack configuration
module.exports ={
entry: path.join(paths.JS, 'index.js'),
output: {
path: paths.DIST,
filename: 'app.bundle.js'
},
//set starting point for server
devServer: {
contentBase: paths.SRC,
host:'localhost',
port: port,
historyApiFallback: true,
open: true,
hot:true
},
//set webpack to use plugins
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: path.join(paths.SRC, 'index.html'),
}),
new ExtractTextPlugin('style.bundle.css'),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin()
],
//configure loaders
module: {
rules: [
//setup babel loader
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: [
'babel-loader',
],
},
//setup css loader
{
test: /\.css$/,
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract({
use: 'css-loader',
}),
},
{
test: /\.(png|jpg|gif)$/,
use: [
'file-loader',
],
},
],
},
//enable JS files without adding their extensions
resolve: {
extensions: ['.js', '.jsx'],
},
};
Here is the error on the browser console
Loading failed for the <script> with source “http://localhost:3000/js/app.bundle.js”
Source map error: request failed with status 404 Resource URL: http://localhost:3000/app.bundle.js Source Map URL: sockjs.js.map

The post is old but hopefully this helps some future person since I just solved a similar issue, here goes:
Ensure that the server root path and the output path makes sense for the files generating the 404 error.
Specifically, the server root path, set by "contentBase: paths.SRC" points to the SRC folder but the JS files are output to paths.DIST. When a browser attempts to access these files the URL it uses points to the wrong location. Fix by either changing content base to DIST, or adding publicPath: paths.DIST, which will override contentbase.
Link to references for contentBase, and publicPath.

The same error happened to me because i didn't run Webpack.
npx webpack
Run it on the same directory as Webpack configuration script.

Webpack bundles tests (enzyme / jest) in the production env

I have issue with Webpack building production bundle with test files + test libs included.
In this case it is Enzyme and Jest which we use.
Webpack version 3.10.0
Webpack.build.js
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const UglifyJsPlugin = require('uglifyjs-webpack-plugin');
module.exports = function() {
return {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../build'),
filename: 'bundle.js',
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: [
/node_modules/,
/__snapshots__/,
/test-util/,
],
loader: 'babel-loader'
},
{
test: /\.scss$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'isomorphic-style-loader'
},
{
loader: 'css-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader'
}
]
},
]
},
plugins: [
new UglifyJsPlugin(),
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': {
'NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV),
}
}),
]
}
};
Here is the file structure
I have tried to workaround the issue by placing Enzyme as external resource in webpack.
externals: {
'enzyme': 'enzyme',
'enzyme-adapter-react-16': 'enzyme-adapter-react-16',
}
That does exclude it from build but (it is workaround) it still builds the snapshot files
I have tried to make "test" regex of babel-loader more specific and exclude test files but it failed.
This is new project and I spent whole day trying to make it bundle only what is necesary. Drained all of my know-how, my google know-how and know-how of the poeple I know or I work with. Hope that SO will be smarter :)

Run Mocha specs from React app in a browser using Webpack and mocha-loader

I have a react App for which I'd like to run its mocha specs (unit-tests) in a browser. I found this SO post and tried to apply same idea to my project. I came up with the following webpack config file:
webpack.config.test.js
const nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals');
const path = require('path');
const host = 'localhost';
const port = '8084';
module.exports = {
target: 'web',
externals: [nodeExternals()],
entry: './specs/index.js',
output: {
filename: 'debug.bundle.js',
path: path.join(__dirname, 'tests'),
publicPath: `http://${host}:${port}/tests`,
},
devServer: {
host,
port,
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
loaders: ['react-hot-loader', 'babel-loader'],
enforce: 'pre',
},
{
test: /.+Spec\.js$/,
loaders: ['mocha-loader'],
},
{
test: /(\.css|\.scss)$/,
loader: 'null-loader',
exclude: [
/build/,
],
},
{
test: /(\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.png|\.gif)$/,
loader: 'null-loader',
},
],
},
};
And, after starting the server with:
webpack-dev-server --config webpack.config.test.js
I get the following error in console:
I've read that the problem might be with webpack-node-externals but not really sure what's happening. Any ideas?

I think you will want to use webpack-node-externals only when you bundle files for backend (as described in plugin README). When you use it you forbid it to build all modules from node_modules folder.

Still getting 'Symbol' is undefined' error even after adding babel-polyfill in my webpack

https://babeljs.io/docs/usage/polyfill/#usage-in-browser
I did not understand the lines on the documentation page under:
Usage in Browser heading
can someone help me with what else is required:
Below are my code snippets:
I'm using storybook as a boilerplate:
webpack.config.js file:
entry: [
'babel-polyfill',
require.resolve('react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient'),
paths.appIndexJs
]
index.js file:
import 'babel-polyfill';
import React from 'react';
Is there some other files also where I need to add babel-polyfill related code.
require('babel-polyfill');
var path = require('path');
var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var CaseSensitivePathsPlugin = require('case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin');
var InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/InterpolateHtmlPlugin');
var WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin = require('react-dev-utils/WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin');
var getClientEnvironment = require('./env');
var paths = require('./paths');
var publicPath = '/';
var publicUrl = '';
var env = getClientEnvironment(publicUrl);
module.exports = {
devtool: 'cheap-module-source-map',
entry: ['babel-polyfill',
require.resolve('react-dev-utils/webpackHotDevClient'),
require.resolve('./polyfills'),
paths.appIndexJs
],
output: {
path: paths.appBuild,
pathinfo: true,
filename: 'static/js/bundle.js',
publicPath: publicPath
},
resolve: {
fallback: paths.nodePaths,
extensions: ['.js', '.json', '.jsx', ''],
alias: {
'react-native': 'react-native-web'
}
},
module: {
// First, run the linter.
// It's important to do this before Babel processes the JS.
preLoaders: [{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
loader: 'eslint',
include: paths.appSrc,
}],
loaders: [{
exclude: [/\.html$/, /\.(js|jsx)$/, /\.css$/, /\.json$/],
loader: 'url',
query: {
limit: 10000,
name: 'static/media/[name].[hash:8].[ext]'
}
},
// Process JS with Babel.
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
include: paths.appSrc,
loader: 'babel',
query: {
cacheDirectory: true
}
}, {
test: /\.css$/,
loader: 'style!css?importLoaders=1!postcss'
}, {
test: /\.json$/,
loader: 'json'
}
]
},
// We use PostCSS for autoprefixing only.
postcss: function() {
return [
autoprefixer({
browsers: ['>1%', 'last 4 versions', 'Firefox ESR', 'not ie < 9', // React doesn't support IE8 anyway
]
}),
];
},
plugins: [
new InterpolateHtmlPlugin({
PUBLIC_URL: publicUrl
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
inject: true,
template: paths.appHtml,
}),
new webpack.DefinePlugin(env),
new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
new CaseSensitivePathsPlugin(),
new WatchMissingNodeModulesPlugin(paths.appNodeModules)
],
node: {
fs: 'empty',
net: 'empty',
tls: 'empty'
}
};

There are two ways to get this code into your browser.
1 - Include the babel-polyfill module in the webpack bundle
2 - Load it as an external script in your html
Webpack - adding bundle dependencies with entry arrays
Put an array as the entry point to make the babel-polyfill module available to your bundle as an export.
With webpack.config.js, add babel-polyfill to your entry array.
The webpack docs explain how an entry array is handled:
What happens when you pass an array to entry? Passing an array of file
paths to the entry property creates what is known as a "multi-main
entry". This is useful when you would like to inject multiple
dependent files together and graph their dependencies into one
"chunk".
Webpack.config.js
require("babel-polyfill");
var config = {
devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
entry: {
main: [
// configuration for babel6
['babel-polyfill', './src/js/main.js']
]
},
}
Alternative to Webpack - load babel-polyfill as an external script in the browser html
The alternative to using webpack would mean including the module as an external script in your html. It will then be available to code in the browser but the webpack bundle won't be directly aware of it.
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-polyfill/6.22.0/polyfill.js"></script>