How to avoid React loading twice with Webpack when developing

Question

Given the following directory structure:

my-project
|
|-- node_modules
    |
    |-- react
    |-- module-x
        |
        |--node_modules
            |
          


        

Answer 1

If you don’t want to (or can’t) modify the project configuration, there is a more straightforward solution: just npm link React itself back to your project:

# link the component
cd my-app
npm link ../my-react-component

# link its copy of React back to the app's React
cd ../my-react-component
npm link ../my-app/node_modules/react