main.css should not be loaded as CSS module via webpack

client/main.css is a standard, non-module stylesheet, but according to the CSS loaders defined in webpack.config.prod.js, it appears to be treated as a CSS module:

{
  test: /\.css$/,
  exclude: /node_modules/,
  loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader?localIdentName=[hash:base64]&modules&importLoaders=1!postcss-loader'),
}, {
  test: /\.css$/,
  include: /node_modules/,
  loaders: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
}

This results in the stylesheet being loaded separately after the main HTML content of the page instead of with the main CSS manifest at the top of the page, as it should.

One potential solution would be to move non-module stylesheets into a separate directory, and define separate webpack loaders: one for CSS modules, and one for standard CSS files.

Something like:

var rawCSSDir = path.join(__dirname, 'client/style');

{
  test: /\.css$/,
  exclude: [/node_modules/, rawCSSDir],
  loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader?localIdentName=[hash:base64]&modules&importLoaders=1!postcss-loader'),
}, {
  test: /\.css$/,
  include: rawCSSDir,
  loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css-loader?localIdentName=[hash:base64]&importLoaders=1!postcss-loader'),
},

Hashnode / mern-starter

main.css should not be loaded as CSS module via webpack #300