webpack hangs at on "95% emit" / "95% emitting"

javascript node.js ecmascript-6 webpack webpack-2
bitten picture bitten · Aug 22, 2016 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

This is my production webpack config. The two quotes in the title refer to webpack2 and webpack respectively. Both hang for me with a similar error.

This is my command to trigger the build

set NODE_ENV=production && webpack --config config/webpack.config.prod.js --progress --display-error-details

What am I missing?

Here is the output after running npm run pack which correlates to my production webpack build:

$ npm run pack

> somedir@ pack C:\somedir
> set NODE_ENV=production && webpack --config config/webpack.config.prod.js --progress --display-error-details
                           95% emitting

Answer

bitten picture bitten · Aug 29, 2016

So I figured this out. It turns out I was including reserved characters in my output path. I've since opened an issue on github.

When using an invalid or reserved character in the output.path webpack will hang with no output. Running with the --progress flag will show that it's hanging on 95% emit(ting) (suffix depending on webpack version).

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