Webpack Integration - 'Cannot resolve module 'child_process'

I’m trying to use cytoscape.js with webpack and am having trouble including it. I’ve tried both:

var cytoscape = require('cytoscape');

and

import cytoscape from 'cytoscape'

In both cases, running ‘webpack’ creates the errors:

WARNING in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js
Critical dependencies:
563:63-70 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
577:59-66 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js 563:63-70 577:59-66

WARNING in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js
Critical dependencies:
564:16-31 the request of a dependency is an expression
578:10-583:12 the request of a dependency is an expression
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js 564:16-31 578:10-583:12

WARNING in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js
Critical dependencies:
18:1282-1289 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
18:1157-1164 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js 18:1282-1289 18:1157-1164

WARNING in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js
Critical dependencies:
18:1169-1179 the request of a dependency is an expression
18:1291-1344 the request of a dependency is an expression
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js 18:1169-1179 18:1291-1344

ERROR in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'child_process' in /home/ozzie/personal/test/node_modules/cytoscape/dist
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.js 7170:30-54

ERROR in ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'child_process' in /home/ozzie/personal/test/node_modules/cytoscape/dist
 @ ./~/cytoscape/dist/cytoscape.min.js 21:10865-10889

Very similar issues have been documented in other npm packages: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/ParseReact/issues/11 https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/66

[OAGr]

I was able to get around this by doing,

module.exports.node = {
  child_process: 'empty'
}

Of course, this doesn’t seem like the best fix.

[jogshraddha]

_Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module ‘child_process’ in /project/node_modules/serialport/lib/bindings

I am facing above error when I build my react application. My application is created using create-react-app and electronjs. I googled for this issue and the most suggested solutions are related to webpack config which I can not directly modify in create-react-app. I tried those solutions like adding ‘target: node’ and external config etc by ejecting create react app but that also did not work. Before adding serialport package it was working properly now it looks up for the child_process package into serialport libs. Can someone help me out in this?