I’m encountering an unusual error during the build process with Webpack. The error highlights an issue with the package.json for a package I am utilizing. Here’s the error message I received:
Module parse error: .../node_modules/got/package.json Unexpected character (2:8)
You might require a specific loader to properly handle this file type.
SyntaxError: Unexpected character (2:8)
I would like to understand whether this problem originates from my setup or if it’s related to the Got package itself.
Node version: v4.2.0
NPM version: 2.14.7
It sounds like the issue might be related to how your build setup is trying to process the package.json of the ‘got’ module. In my experience, Webpack typically doesn’t need to parse package.json files directly. It seems like the build is trying to treat a JSON file as a module, possibly due to a configuration oversight. If updating your loaders doesn’t help, you might want to look into excluding .json files from specific parsing rules, using a file extension condition within your Webpack configuration. Also, make sure the ‘json-loader’ is installed and used correctly. Updating Node.js and NPM might also resolve the issue as your versions are quite outdated.