Module build failed (from ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js): TypeError: Cannot read property 'bindings' of null

Question

I've got an error while building a project:

Module build failed (from ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js):
TypeError: Cannot read property 'bindings' of null

My development environment is as follows:

Node: 8.0.0
npm: 5.0.0

devDependencies

"devDependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.26.3",
    "babel-loader": "^8.0.0",
    "babel-preset-env": "^1.7.0",
    "webpack": "^4.17.1",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^3.1.7"
}

Answer 1

[email protected] uses Babel 7.x, which is @babel/core@^7.0.0, and more importantly in your case @babel/preset-env@7 replaces babel-preset-env@^1.7.0.

You'll need to make sure to do

npm install @babel/core @babel/preset-env

and update your Babel config to use @babel/preset-env instead of babel-preset-env with something like

"presets": [
  "@babel/preset-env"
]

Note: For others coming across this, the issue may also be that you're using plugins/preset from Babel 6 on Babel 7. This may be hard to notice if you're using a third-party Babel preset since the versions of the presets may not match the version of Babel itself.