Increase verbosity for "Module not found" errors, to prevent case sensitiveness problems

[caesarsol]

As discussed with @gaearon in #1260

My problem had to do with:

• a local MacOS build (case insensitive) with files with the right casing
• a git repository with wrong filenames casing
• a remote CI build on a linux server, hence case sensitive

The CI builds failed, the local was OK, and I lost hours because I had no access to CI machine and I was misleaded by the undescriptive error message.

My proposal is to leverage something similar to the CaseSensitiveWebpackPlugin to give a more verbose error message, for example a directory listing or the searched paths.

[gaearon]

Can you raise an issue with your suggestions in https://github.com/Urthen/case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin? It is not exactly clear to me what is actionable here on our side.

[edmundtfy]

@caesarsol So did you solve your problem? I seemed to always get this message, I don't know how to solve it. I have to comment out the react-script dev.webpack to get it working...

[caesarsol]

Hey @edmundtfy,
I actually never opened the issue...

The problem was easily solved by changing the filenames in the git repo, to their right casing.
(case-insensitiveness makes this tricky: the easiest way was to rename to something else, commit, then rename back)

Going to open the issue on the plugin today!

[edmundtfy]

@caesarsol
hmm then I guess we are running into different issues? the git repo (as checked in GitHub.com) has the correct upper-case folders and files
The case for me is

1. branch out and make a new branch in a old git repo.
2. install everything needed for create-react-app
3. everything is working with yarn start and all.
4. finished my branch to migrate to create-react-app, commit and push.
5. git checkout master branch.
6. git checkout my new branch again. yarn start starts giving case insensitive warning.

[caesarsol]

Is it working after you restart the webpack server and/or reinstall all npm packages?

You may be running in something like Urthen/case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin#17?

[edmundtfy]

@caesarsol it is not working after restart, but is good after reinstall all npm packages... I guess more related to that issues you link to

[caesarsol]

Thats surprising, I don't know if it has anything to do with this at this point. I'm sorry!

[gaearon]

Closing as stale.