Not able to access right node_modules path on webpack-rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying for the first time to work with angularjs with rails as the back end. I am using webpack-rails gem for the webpack configuration for managing css and other style sheets.
First I made a sample angular + rails app to display a simple text "Hello world". By default the font was in times new roman. Then I added bootstrap to the package.json file as follows.
package.json
{
"name": "shine",
"version": "0.0.1",
"license": "MIT",
"dependencies": {
"stats-webpack-plugin": "^0.4.3",
"webpack": "^1.14.0",
"webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.2",
"css-loader": "^0.23.1",
"file-loader": "^0.9.0",
"style-loader": "^0.13.1",
"url-loader": "^0.5.7",
"bootstrap": "3.3.7"
}
}
Then I ran npm install which generated a folder named node_modules
with all the packages mentioned in the package.json in Project/node_modules path.
And webpack configuration to access access these package files is given in the
webpack.config.js
'use strict';
var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var StatsPlugin = require('stats-webpack-plugin');
// must match config.webpack.dev_server.port
var devServerPort = 3808;
// set NODE_ENV=production on the environment to add asset fingerprints
var production = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production';
var config = {
entry: {
// Sources are expected to live in $app_root/webpack
'application': './webpack/application.js'
},
output: {
// Build assets directly in to public/webpack/, let webpack know
// that all webpacked assets start with webpack/
// must match config.webpack.output_dir
path: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'public', 'webpack'),
publicPath: '/webpack/',
filename: production ? '[name]-[chunkhash].js' : '[name].js'
},
resolve: {
root: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'webpack')
},
plugins: [
// must match config.webpack.manifest_filename
new StatsPlugin('manifest.json', {
// We only need assetsByChunkName
chunkModules: false,
source: false,
chunks: false,
modules: false,
assets: true
})]
};
if (production) {
config.plugins.push(
new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin(),
new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
compressor: { warnings: false },
sourceMap: false
}),
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env': { NODE_ENV: JSON.stringify('production') }
}),
new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin()
);
} else {
config.devServer = {
port: devServerPort,
headers: { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*' }
};
config.output.publicPath = '//localhost:' + devServerPort + '/webpack/';
// Source maps
config.devtool = 'cheap-module-eval-source-map';
}
module.exports = config;
And in my webpack/application.js I am calling that bootstrap package as follows.
require("bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css");
console.log("Hello world!");
Now when I restart the server and reload the page I don't see any change in the font instead in the console I am getting.
Uncaught Error: Cannot find module "bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css"
at webpackMissingModule
What am I doing wrong here ?

Answer 1

perhaps...
require('boostrap');
if that doesn't work, check to see if the file bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css exists