TypeError loading webpack.config.js in ESM project with node v16.6 #2864
Description
I think this change nodejs/node#39175 in node 16.6 means the webpack.config.js is loading is broken for ESM projects.
Our CI started failing once node 16.6 got rolled out with:
$ npm run build > @web3-storage/api@3.1.1 build > webpack TypeError: String.prototype.startsWith called on null or undefined at startsWith (<anonymous>) at node:internal/errors:811:19 at Array.filter (<anonymous>) at node:internal/errors:809:16 at prepareStackTrace (node:internal/errors:96:12) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1138:38) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)Setting WEBPACK_CLI_FORCE_LOAD_ESM_CONFIG=true fixed it, but it seems like a workaround.
see:
webpack-cli/packages/webpack-cli/lib/webpack-cli.js
Lines 50 to 51 in a660ffc
see: nodejs/node#39175
see: nodejs/node@e2a6399#r54198959