webpack command fails with below error.

[AjayU]

Steps performed.

1. Downloaded the ZIP from git and unzipped it.
2. npm install
3. webpack

Hash: 396f0bfb9d565b6f60f0 Version: webpack 1.13.3 Time: 703ms

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ERROR in ./modules/main.js Module build failed: ReferenceError: [BABEL] D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\modules\main.js: Unknown option: direct.presets at Logger.error (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\file\logger.js:58:11) at OptionManager.mergeOptions (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\file\options\option-manager.js:126:29) at OptionManager.init (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\file\options\option-manager.js:216:10) at File.initOptions (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\file\index.js:147:75) at new File (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\file\index.js:137:22) at Pipeline.transform (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-core\lib\transformation\pipeline.js:164:16) at transpile (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-loader\index.js:12:22) at Object.module.exports (D:\temporary\Working\webpack-howto-master\example\node_modules\babel-loader\index.js:71:12)

[techaware]

+1

[kimobrian]

@AjayU @techaware The issue here is due to the versions of babel-loader your are using. Try updating your package.json to this.

{
  "name": "webpack-howto-example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "webpack-dev-server",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.24.0",
    "babel-loader": "^6.4.1",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.0",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.23.0",
    "bundle-loader": "^0.5.0",
    "css-loader": "^0.9.0",
    "file-loader": "^0.7.2",
    "less": "^1.7.5",
    "less-loader": "^0.7.7",
    "style-loader": "^0.8.0",
    "url-loader": "^0.5.5",
    "webpack": "^2.3.2",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^2.4.2"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^0.13.3",
    "react-router": "^0.13.3"
  }
}

Check out this PR that uses webpack 2.x. Here is the branch.