"You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type." about modernizr-loader

[flootr]

I don't guess that's the reason because, if I remove everything inside .modernizrrc (just leave {} ), webpack runs perfectly

Nevertheless, your loader configuration for Modernizr would not apply to the provided file because the regex does not match. The error message

Unexpected token (2:10)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.

is, at least in my experience, almost everytime caused by a "falsy" loader configuration. So there might be an issue there which is not caused by the modernizr-loader itself.

I cloned your repo and it happens to be that webpack is not recognizing your .modernizrrc as a json file. If you pass in the json-loader into your configuration like so

{
  test: /\.modernizrrc/,
  loader: 'modernizr-loader!json-loader'
},

it should run successfully.

However, I thought that webpack@2 is capable of reading json files. Maybe @jhnns has some input here. It might be due to the alias.

[jhnns]

Webpack 2 will only apply the json-loader by default if the file extension is .json

[CarpenterBug]

I had a typo in the webpack.config.js resolve but it didn't fixed the issue.

.../Webpack2Setup/webpack.config.js (FIXED)

...
resolve: {
  alias: {
    modernizr$: __dirname + "/.modernizrrc"
  }
},
...

New error

ERROR in ./.modernizrrc
Module parse failed: .../Webpack2Setup/.modernizrrc Unexpected token (2:10)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
| {
|   "minify": false,
|   "options": [
|     "setClasses"

[flootr]

Hey! This might be due to your loader configuration. You are expecting a /\.modernizrrc.js$/, but you are aliasing modernizr to .modernizrrc.

[CarpenterBug]

I don't guess that's the reason because, if I remove everything inside .modernizrrc (just leave {} ), webpack runs perfectly

[CarpenterBug]

@flootr you're right, I just needed to update the loader: 'modernizr-loader!json-loader'

That's a good question because I read somewhere that I didn't need json-loader with webpack 2. Probably I don't need to install it (I don't have it on my package.json) but I have to pass it into my configuration.

Thank you for your help 😄