Invalid configuration object. Webpack has been initialised using a configuration object that does not match the API schema

Question

I have this simple helloworld react app created from an online course, however I get this error:

Invalid configuration object. Webpack has been initialised using a configuration object that does not match the API schema. - configuration has an unknown property 'postcss'. These properties are valid: object { amd?, bail?, cache?, context?, dependencies?, devServer?, devtool?, entry, externals?, loader?, module?, name?, node?, output?, performance?, plugins?, profile?, recordsInputPath?, recordsO utputPath?, recordsPath?, resolve?, resolveLoader?, stats?, target?, watch?, watchOptions? } For typos: please correct them.
For loader options: webpack 2 no longer allows custom properties in configuration. Loaders should be updated to allow passing options via loader options in module.rules. Until loaders are updated one can use the LoaderOptionsPlugin to pass these options to the loader: plugins: [ new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({ // test: /.xxx$/, // may apply this only for some modules options: { postcss: ... } }) ] - configuration.resolve has an unknown property 'root'. These properties are valid: object { alias?, aliasFields?, cachePredicate?, descriptionFiles?, enforceExtension?, enforceModuleExtension?, extensions?, fileSystem?, mainFields?, mainFiles?, moduleExtensions?, modules?, plugins ?, resolver?, symlinks?, unsafeCache?, useSyncFileSystemCalls? } - configuration.resolve.extensions[0] should not be empty.

My webpack file is:

// work with all paths in a cross-platform manner
const path = require('path');

// plugins covered below
const { ProvidePlugin } = require('webpack');
const CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');

// configure source and distribution folder paths
const srcFolder = 'src';
const distFolder = 'dist';

// merge the common configuration with the environment specific configuration
module.exports = {

    // entry point for application
    entry: {
        'app': path.join(__dirname, srcFolder, 'ts', 'app.tsx')
    },

    // allows us to require modules using
    // import { someExport } from './my-module';
    // instead of
    // import { someExport } from './my-module.ts';
    // with the extensions in the list, the extension can be omitted from the 
    // import from path
    resolve: {
        // order matters, resolves left to right
        extensions: ['', '.js', '.ts', '.tsx', '.json'],
        // root is an absolute path to the folder containing our application 
        // modules
        root: path.join(__dirname, srcFolder, 'ts')
    },

    module: {
        loaders: [
            // process all TypeScript files (ts and tsx) through the TypeScript 
            // preprocessor
            { test: /\.tsx?$/,loader: 'ts-loader' },
            // processes JSON files, useful for config files and mock data
            { test: /\.json$/, loader: 'json' },
            // transpiles global SCSS stylesheets
            // loader order is executed right to left
            {
                test: /\.scss$/,
                exclude: [path.join(__dirname, srcFolder, 'ts')],
                loaders: ['style', 'css', 'postcss', 'sass']
            },
            // process Bootstrap SCSS files
            {
                test: /\.scss$/,
                exclude: [path.join(__dirname, srcFolder, 'scss')],
                loaders: ['raw', 'sass']
            }
        ]
    },

    // configuration for the postcss loader which modifies CSS after
    // processing
    // autoprefixer plugin for postcss adds vendor specific prefixing for
    // non-standard or experimental css properties
    postcss: [ require('autoprefixer') ],

    plugins: [
        // provides Promise and fetch API for browsers which do not support
        // them
        new ProvidePlugin({
            'Promise': 'es6-promise',
            'fetch': 'imports?this=>global!exports?global.fetch!whatwg-fetch'
        }),
        // copies image files directly when they are changed
        new CopyWebpackPlugin([{
            from: path.join(srcFolder, 'images'),
            to: path.join('..', 'images')
        }]),
        // copies the index.html file, and injects a reference to the output JS 
        // file, app.js
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
            template: path.join(__dirname, srcFolder, 'index.html'),
            filename:  path.join('..', 'index.html'),
            inject: 'body',
        })
    ],

    // output file settings
    // path points to web server content folder where the web server will serve 
    // the files from file name is the name of the files, where [name] is the 
    // name of each entry point 
    output: {
        path: path.join(__dirname, distFolder, 'js'),
        filename: '[name].js',
        publicPath: '/js'
    },

    // use full source maps
    // this specific setting value is required to set breakpoints in they
    // TypeScript source in the web browser for development other source map
    devtool: 'source-map',

    // use the webpack dev server to serve up the web application
    devServer: {
        // files are served from this folder
        contentBase: 'dist',
        // support HTML5 History API for react router
        historyApiFallback: true,
        // listen to port 5000, change this to another port if another server 
        // is already listening on this port
        port: 5000,
        // proxy requests to the JSON server REST service
        proxy: {
            '/widgets': {
                // server to proxy
                target: 'http://0.0.0.0:3010'
            }
        }
    }

};

Answer 1

Just change from "loaders" to "rules" in "webpack.config.js"

Because loaders is used in Webpack 1, and rules in Webpack2. You can see there have differences.