Transpiling with webpack doesn't work.

First thing’s first:

• node v6.2.0
• webpack v1.13.1
• socket.io v1.4.6

Trying to transpile the following code:

import io from 'socket.io';

But the following error gets thrown:

fs.js:971
  return binding.fstat(fd);
                 ^

Error: EBADF: bad file descriptor, fstat
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.fstatSync (fs.js:971:18)
    at tryStatSync (fs.js:456:13)
    at fs.readFileSync (fs.js:504:12)
    at eval (webpack:///../~/socket.io/lib/index.js?:27:20)

So I try to fiddle with it by commenting out socket.io/lib/index.js, line 27:20

// var clientSource = read(require.resolve('socket.io-client/socket.io.js'), 'utf-8');

While also commenting out the following occurrence of clientSource. Afterwards, code transpiles beautifully without any errors. It seems to me that the issue is with require.resolve being incompatible with webpack transpilation. Any thoughts on how I can fix this issue? I would love to use some socket.io with webpack.

[omerts]

@tyron-j , excluding node_modules from babel-loader doesn’t help. Excluding it entirely from the webpack bundle via the externals config does help, but it is an unwanted behavior. We would like to have one bundle file including all the dependencies in it.

[tyron-j]

Forgot to mention where that object actually belongs:

module.exports = [{
    // ...

    module: {
        loaders: [ babelLoader ]
    },

    // ...
}];

^ as part of your webpack.config.js.