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[PackFileCacheStrategy error because of 'fsevents' on windows

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Bug report

What is the current behavior?

[webpack.cache.PackFileCacheStrategy] Caching failed for pack: Error: Can't resolve 'fsevents' in '<path>\node_modules\chokidar'
 while resolving 'fsevents' in <path>\node_modules\chokidar to a directory

I tried installing fsevents as a dev dependency, but it says:

Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.3.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

It’s also skipped when chokidar is installed, I assume that fsevents is not available on windows.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

What is the expected behavior?

caching works and no error

Other relevant information: webpack version: 5 Node.js version: v14.15.1 Operating System: Windows 7 Additional tools: Webpack is used in NextJS

Issue Analytics

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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sokracommented, Apr 2, 2021

This is a webpack bug. We need to make optional dependencies optional

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alexander-akaitcommented, Apr 2, 2021

I think you need to open an issue in nextjs repo

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