outputPath validation fails on Windows

[mdurling]

webpack@2.1.0-beta.22
webpack-validator@2.2.9

The path check should be using the platform specific delimiter, e.g. require('path').sep

{
"metadata": {
"port": 9000,
"host": "localhost",
"ENV": "development",
"HMR": false
},
"entry": {
"app": [],
"aurelia-bootstrap": [
"aurelia-bootstrapper-webpack",
"aurelia-polyfills",
"aurelia-pal",
"aurelia-pal-browser",
"regenerator-runtime",
"bluebird"
],
"aurelia": [
"aurelia-binding",
"aurelia-dependency-injection",
"aurelia-event-aggregator",
"aurelia-framework",
"aurelia-history",
"aurelia-history-browser",
"aurelia-loader",
"aurelia-loader-webpack",
"aurelia-logging",
"aurelia-logging-console",
"aurelia-metadata",
"aurelia-path",
"aurelia-route-recognizer",
"aurelia-router",
"aurelia-task-queue",
"aurelia-templating",
"aurelia-templating-binding",
"aurelia-templating-router",
"aurelia-templating-resources"
]
},
"output": {
"path": "C:\Git\proximus\dist",
"filename": "[name].bundle.js",
"sourceMapFilename": "[name].bundle.map",
"chunkFilename": "[id].chunk.js"
},
"externals": {
"jquery": "jQuery"
},
"devServer": {
"stats": {
"colors": true,
"hash": false,
"version": true,
"timings": false,
"assets": true,
"chunks": false,
"modules": false,
"reasons": false,
"children": false,
"source": false,
"errors": true,
"errorDetails": true,
"warnings": true,
"publicPath": false
},
"port": 9000,
"host": "localhost",
"historyApiFallback": true,
"watchOptions": {
"aggregateTimeout": 300,
"poll": 1000
},
"outputPath" [1]: "C:\Git\proximus\dist"
},
"debug": true,
"devtool": "cheap-module-inline-source-map",
"plugins": [
{
"definitions": {
"DEV": true,
"ENV": ""development"",
"HMR": false,
"process.env": {
"ENV": ""development"",
"NODE_ENV": ""development"",
"HMR": false,
"WEBPACK_HOST": ""localhost"",
"WEBPACK_PORT": "9000"
}
}
}
]
}

[1] "outputPath" should end with a slash (example: "/assets/" or "http://cdn.example.com/assets/[hash]/")

[kentcdodds]

I'm guessing the changes need to happen here: https://github.com/js-dxtools/webpack-validator/blob/master/src/types/absolutePath.js

Would you be willing to makeapullrequest.com?

[nyrosmith]

@kentcdodds This won't be an easy change bc the regex itself is not correct at all. I tried to change current query if it REALLY is an absolute path but afterwards lots of Test configs failed.
Related issue: #131

If we change the current behavior we'd break lots of builds... But on the other side the validation is not correct right now.

[kentcdodds]

Sounds like we'd need a breaking change. Is there any reason we couldn't just use an existing npm package that does this check for us?

[nyrosmith]

No, but we'd have to change the Test configs to pass or just verify Test configs for the current platform.
I am not sure if it is worth it because webpack2 has its own scheme validation.

[kentcdodds]

I am not sure if it is worth it because webpack2 has its own scheme validation.

Agreed. But this seems pretty significant for windows users. I'd be happy to accept a pull request that fixes it for that case. But I definitely don't have time to work on it myself.

[mdurling]

I think the change would be needed here https://github.com/js-dxtools/webpack-validator/blob/c9eea8d4142a329c09f0fd49ec0d411c4fe6ad4c/src/types/urlPart.js

However, I was using this package as a way to check configs that are failing the webpack2 validation which seems to be even more restrictive so yes, this package may become somewhat redundant for folks using webpack2.

[kentcdodds]

Sounds good. Anyone can feel free to make a PR to fix this issue. 👍