Webpack - Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression

Question

I am getting three warning messages when importing request in a barebone webpack project. A minimal example to reproduce the bug is available on GitHub (run

Answer 1

Replace this

new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(
        /angular(\\|\/)core(\\|\/)@angular/,
        helpers.root('./src'), // location of your src
        {} // a map of your routes
    ),

with this-

new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin( /(.+)?angular(\\|\/)core(.+)?/, root('./src'), {} )