NPM + Zurb Foundation + WebPack: Cannot resolve module 'foundation'

Question

I am working on using Zurb Foundation with WebPack and NPM, without Bower.

The problem I am encountering is the same as this below:

https://github.c

Answer 1

While @roberto's answer looks great, I wanted to provide a simpler solution (in which it does not require any extra vendor/foundation files).

In your webpack config use this:

// this will force the export of the jQuery 'foundation' function, 
// which we'll use later on
loaders: [
  {
    test: /(foundation\.core)/,
    loader: 'exports?foundation=jQuery.fn.foundation'
  }
],

// this makes sure that every module can resolve define(['foundation']) calls
resolve: {
  extensions: ['', '.js'],
  alias: {
    foundation: 'foundation-sites/js/foundation.core'
  }
},

// this makes sure 'jQuery' is available to any jQuery plugin you might want 
// to load (including Foundation files) regardless of how they are written
plugins: [
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    'window.jQuery': 'jquery'
  })
]

And in your index.js:

// thanks to the ProvidePlugin we don't need to
// > import $ from 'jquery';

// required core foundation files
import { foundation } from 'foundation-sites/js/foundation.core';
import 'foundation-sites/js/foundation.util.mediaQuery';

/* import here any additional module */

// we need to attach the function we force-exported in the config
// above to the jQuery object in use in this file
$.fn.foundation = foundation;

// ready to go
$(document).ready(function() {
  $(document).foundation();
  …
});

NOTE #1 (thank you @mtyson)
You need to use the exports loader: $ npm install --save exports-loader or $ npm install --save-dev exports-loader

NOTE #2
Since jQuery is not global inside single modules (or for some other reason that is beyond my understanding), there might be problems relying on data- attributes for Foundation JS components. If that is the case, you can always use the pure javascript way as documented in Foundation docs.