Webpack's IgnorePlugin causes an "TypeError: Cannot read property 'identifier' of undefined"

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Bug.

What is the current behavior? Using webpack.IgnorePlugin causes compilation to fail with a TypeError: Cannot read property 'identifier' of undefined message. The full stack trace:

C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:250
                const identifier = module.identifier();
                                          ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'identifier' of undefined
    at Compilation.addModule (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:250:29)
    at moduleFactory.create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:597:34)
    at hooks.beforeResolve.callAsync (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:278:23)
    at AsyncSeriesWaterfallHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:18:1)
    at AsyncSeriesWaterfallHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at NormalModuleFactory.create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModuleFactory.js:268:28)
    at semaphore.acquire (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:577:18)
    at Semaphore.acquire (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\util\Semaphore.js:16:4)
    at Compilation._addModuleChain (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:576:18)
    at Compilation.addEntry (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:657:8)
    at compiler.hooks.make.tapAsync (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\SingleEntryPlugin.js:30:16)
    at AsyncParallelHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:7:1)
    at AsyncParallelHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at hooks.beforeCompile.callAsync.err (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:434:20)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at Compiler.compile (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:427:28)
    at readRecords.err (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:217:11)
    at Compiler.readRecords (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:324:11)
    at hooks.run.callAsync.err (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:214:10)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at hooks.beforeRun.callAsync.err (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:211:19)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:15:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at Compiler.run (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:208:24)
    at processOptions (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\webpack.js:469:20)
    at yargs.parse (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\webpack.js:472:3)
    at Object.parse (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:539:18)
    at C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\webpack.js:196:8
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\dev\workspaces\labtime\design-system\webpack-postcss-cssnext\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\webpack.js:474:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:491:3)

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce. I put up an isolated test case on GitHub: https://github.com/lodybo/webpack-ignoreplugin-iso-testcase.git

There are 2 config files: the normal one (which compiles css files), and a smaller alternate config. I used the alternate one to provide an isolated test case: npm run webpack -- --config webpack.config-alt.js

What is the expected behavior? Expected behaviour is that compilation succeeds, and that the file specified by the regex (theme.js) is not emitted.

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behavior? See above.

Please mention other relevant information such as the browser version, Node.js version, webpack version and Operating System. OS: Windows 10 pro Node version: 8.9.4 NPM: 5.6.0 Webpack: 3.10.0 (I also tried this with 4.0.0-beta.0, with the same result).

[alexander-akait]

webpack@4 also have this problem

[mach-kernel]

This issue also affects me, same exact versions as @lodybo

Usage:

  plugins: [
    new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/vertx/)
  ]