Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression

[mnpenner]

I'm getting these warnings in webpack 3.8.1

WARNING in ../myproject/node_modules/ajv-async/index.js
116:15-28 Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
 @ ../myproject/node_modules/ajv-async/index.js
 @ ../myproject/src/withSchema.js
 @ ../myproject/src/index.js
 @ ./src/components/forms/PersonForm.jsx
 @ ./src/index.jsx
 @ multi (webpack)-dev-server/client?http://0.0.0.0:3123 webpack/hot/dev-server ./src/index.jsx ./src/

WARNING in ../myproject/node_modules/ajv-async/index.js
93:20-33 Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
 @ ../myproject/node_modules/ajv-async/index.js
 @ ../myproject/src/withSchema.js
 @ ../myproject/src/index.js
 @ ./src/components/forms/PersonForm.jsx
 @ ./src/index.jsx
 @ multi (webpack)-dev-server/client?http://0.0.0.0:3123 webpack/hot/dev-server ./src/index.jsx ./src/

Even with

new IgnorePlugin(/regenerator|nodent/, /ajv-async/)

Could ajv-async perhaps be rewritten with require.context or dynamic import() or something to avoid these warnings?

[epoberezkin]

It's a know webpack limitation, I don't understand why it is not addressed.

Having said that, the released beta version does not use require with an expression.