Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'webpack-hot-middleware/client'

Like https://github.com/kadirahq/react-storybook/issues/205, tried adding this to an existing project using the guide

$ npm run storybook

...
> start-storybook -p 9001

=> Loading custom webpack config.

React Storybook started on => http://localhost:9001/

webpack built 98767b17b73fd7d3ae0a in 5067ms
Hash: 98767b17b73fd7d3ae0a
Version: webpack 1.13.1
Time: 5067ms
            Asset     Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
preview.bundle.js  3.97 MB       0  [emitted]  preview
manager.bundle.js   796 kB       1  [emitted]  manager
chunk    {0} preview.bundle.js (preview) 1.43 MB [rendered]
    [0] multi preview 52 bytes {0} [built] [1 error]
    [1] ./~/process/browser.js 2.82 kB {0} [built]
    [2] ./~/react/~/fbjs/lib/invariant.js 1.49 kB {0} [built]
    [3] ./~/react/~/fbjs/lib/warning.js 1.75 kB {0} [built]
    [4] ./~/object-assign/index.js 1.99 kB {0} [built]
    [5] ./~/react/lib/ReactDOMComponentTree.js 6.17 kB {0} [built]
    [6] ./~/react/react.js 56 bytes {0} [built]
    [7] ./~/react-router/lib/routerWarning.js 845 bytes {0} [built]
    [8] ./~/react/~/fbjs/lib/ExecutionEnvironment.js 1.06 kB {0} [built]
    [9] ./~/invariant/browser.js 1.52 kB {0} [built]
...
  [419] ./~/string.prototype.padend/polyfill.js 209 bytes {0} [built]
  [420] ./~/string.prototype.padend/shim.js 316 bytes {0} [built]
  [421] ./~/string.prototype.padstart/implementation.js 975 bytes {0} [built]
  [422] ./~/string.prototype.padstart/polyfill.js 213 bytes {0} [built]
  [423] ./~/string.prototype.padstart/shim.js 324 bytes {0} [built]
  [424] ./src/scripts/components/lib/Button.less 1.09 kB {0} [built]
  [425] ./src/scripts/components/lib/Icon.less 1.09 kB {0} [built]
  [426] ./~/symbol-observable/index.js 101 bytes {0} [built]
  [427] ./~/symbol-observable/ponyfill.js 350 bytes {0} [built]
  [428] ./~/uuid/rng-browser.js 682 bytes {0} [built]
  [429] ./~/uuid/uuid.js 5.29 kB {0} [built]
chunk    {1} manager.bundle.js (manager) 324 kB [rendered]
    [0] multi manager 28 bytes {1} [built]
  [190] ./~/@kadira/storybook/dist/manager.js 324 kB {1} [built]

ERROR in multi preview
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'webpack-hot-middleware/client' in /Users/e.scha/Projects/project
 @ multi preview

Really lost about how to resolve this, since I’m using npm version 3+ and no other similar bug reports have had an issue on this version.

$ npm -v && node -v
3.8.5
v5.6.0

Tried this already too:

$ rm -rf node_modules/
$ npm i webpack-hot-middleware --save-dev

[tcoopman]

It’s a very strange issue. At the moment I don’t have time to further investigate. I also checked the global npm packages and couldn’t find anything wrong with those.

I will update when I find out more.

[eschaefer]

@arunoda I will continue investigating and will report what I find. (I can’t share the current repo this is happening on, unfortunately)