Resolving relative paths in React with Webpack not working - reactjs

Question

I have a react project and I am using webpack. I have a component in frontend/app/components/editor/index.js that I want to include in another component. Currently in order to reference this component I am having to use a relative path (../../../../app/components/editor). However, this is very not easy to use and would like to simply use 'components/editor' for example. My Webpack config file in in fronted/webpack.config.js.
I have added a resolve setting as in this post (Resolving require paths with webpack) but it's still not working.
const {resolve} = require('path');
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const validate = require('webpack-validator');
const {getIfUtils, removeEmpty} = require('webpack-config-utils');
module.exports = env => {
const {ifProd, ifNotProd} = getIfUtils(env)
return validate({
entry: './index.js',
context: __dirname,
output: {
path: resolve(__dirname, './build'),
filename: 'bundle.js',
publicPath: '/build/',
pathinfo: ifNotProd(),
},
devtool: ifProd('source-map', 'eval'),
devServer: {
port: 8080,
historyApiFallback: true
},
module: {
loaders: [
{test: /\.js$/, exclude: /node_modules/, loader: 'babel-loader'},
{test: /\.css$/, loader: 'style-loader!css-loader'},
{test: /(\.eot|\.woff2|\.woff|\.ttf|\.svg)/, loader: 'file-loader'},
],
},
resolve: {
root: path.resolve('./app'),
},
plugins: removeEmpty([
ifProd(new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin()),
ifProd(new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
minimize: true,
debug: false,
quiet: true,
})),
ifProd(new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': {
NODE_ENV: '"production"',
},
})),
ifProd(new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
sourceMap: true,
compress: {
screw_ie8: true, // eslint-disable-line
warnings: false,
},
})),
])
});
};
These are all the settings I have tried in the resolve block but nothing works.
resolve: {
alias: {
shared: path.resolve(__dirname, 'app')
},
resolve: {
root: path.resolve('./app')
},
resolve: {
modules: ['app']
},
resolve: {
modulesDirectories: ['app']
},

Answer 1

Actually, it has to be
model.exports = env => {
...,
resolve: {
modules: ['app', 'node_modules']
},
...
}
So modules is a property of resolve object which itself is a property of the global configuration object. Also, I have included node_modules, because it's likely you want to refer to those as well after you overwrite the default, which is just [ 'node_modules' ]. See docs for more information.
Update based on comment
You are getting an error from webpack-validator, which is not gonna be maintained because of the inbuilt webpack validator. See more in this SO answer and webpack-validator npm. So the error [1] "modules" is not allowed is incorrect. To fix it you need to remove/uninstall webpack-validator.