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

This warning can be linked to packages injections in (dependancies or devDependencies).

If the problem suddenly appears, check the last modification in your package.json.

Consider removing package-lock.json if you plan to relaunch an npm install.