npm link with webpack - cannot find module

Question

I'm trying to npm link a module to a project using webpack as its bundler. Of course, after trying many things, I keep getting this error:

ERROR in ./src/components/store/TableView.jsx
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'react-bootstrap-table'

Here are the exact steps I take when doing this:

1.) cd ../forks/react-bootstrap-table
2.) npm link
(success, checked ~/.nvm/.../node_modules/react-bootstrap-table for symlink and it's there)
3.) cd ../../projRoot/
4.) npm link react-bootstrap-table
(no errors thrown?, says successful link)
5.) node ./node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js

Solutions I've tried:
- https://webpack.github.io/docs/troubleshooting.html
- How to make a linked component peerDepdencies use the equivalent node_modules of the script being linked to?
- And many purple links on google serps

webpack.config.js

const webpack = require('webpack')
const path = require('path')
const ROOT_PATH = path.resolve(__dirname)

module.exports = {
  devtool: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? '' : 'source-map',
  entry: [
    'webpack/hot/only-dev-server',
    './src/index.js'
  ],
  module: {
    loaders: [{
      test: /\.jsx?$/,
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      loaders: ['react-hot','babel']
    },
    {
      test: /\.scss$/,
      loaders: ['style','css','sass'],
      exclude: /node_modules/
    },
    {
      test: /\.css$/,
      loaders: ['style','css']
    },
    {
      test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg|woff(2)?)(\?[a-z0-9]+)?$/,
      loader: 'file-loader'
    }
    ]
  },
  resolve: {
    extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx'],
    fallback: path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules')
  },
  resolveLoader: {
    fallback: path.resolve(__dirname, './node_modules')
  },
  output: {
    path: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? path.resolve(ROOT_PATH, 'app/dist') : path.resolve(ROOT_PATH, 'app/build'),
    publicPath: '/',
    filename: 'bundle.js'
  },
  devServer: {
    contentBase: path.resolve(ROOT_PATH),
    historyApiFallback: true,
    hot: true,
    inline: true,
    progress: true,
    stats: 'errors-only',
    host: '192.168.1.115'
  },
  plugins: [
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin()
  ]
}

Notes:
1. this is the only symlink in the project
2. I run npm install inside forked version (also tried without, doesn't work)
3. I use NVM, but I have used symlinks before without webpack successfully.

I've been at this for a few days now, any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I was facing a similar issue with webpack and ended up by adding this my webpack.config.js:

module.exports = {
    resolve: {
        symlinks: false
    }
};

Here is the link to webpack docs. Since your question there happened a lot to webpack and their api, so I do not know how much relevance my answer still has according to your question. But for people facing this or a similar issue today this could be a solution. As to be seen, there are still people complaining about:

• Webpack GitHub Issue 1643
• Webpack GitHub Issue 1866