No appropriate loader to handle js WebPack babel-loader - reactjs

Question

I got unexpected error about bundling a JSON data. I tried to use json-loader to bundle json, but got the same error there.
ERROR in ./src/index.js 6:7
Module parse failed: Unexpected token (6:7)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type, currently no loaders are configured to process this file. See https://webpack.js.org/concepts#loaders
| import data from './data/recipes.json';
|
> render(<Menu recipes={data} />, document.getElementById('root'));
webpack 5.53.0 compiled with 1 error in 82 ms
./src/index.js
import React from 'react';
import { render} from 'react-dom';
import Menu from './components/Menu';
import data from './data/recipes.json';
render(<Menu recipes={data} />, document.getElementById('root'));
webpack.config.js
var path = require('path');
module.exports = {
entry: './src/index.js',
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist', 'assets'),
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
module: {
rules: [{ test: /\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/, loader: 'babel-loader' }]
}
};
.babelrc
{
"presets": [
"#babel/preset-env",
[
"#babel/preset-react",
{
"runtime": "automatic"
}
]
]
}
package.json
{
"name": "recipes-app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"build": "webpack --mode production"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"react": "^17.0.2",
"react-dom": "^17.0.2",
"serve": "^12.0.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#babel/core": "^7.15.5",
"#babel/preset-env": "^7.15.6",
"#babel/preset-react": "^7.14.5",
"babel-loader": "^8.2.2",
"webpack": "^5.53.0",
"webpack-cli": "^4.8.0"
}
}
In 'webpack.config.js' file I tried to change 'loader' to 'use', same thing...
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom' and ReactDOM.render() also same thing...

Answer 1

webpack.config.js was at the wrong place of a dir structure.