when using npm linked repos, loaders that accept files in node_modules have to be installed locally to all repos

[seansfkelley]

Discovered this along with #2441, so you can see a repro at the same repo: https://github.com/seansfkelley/node-modules-alias-loader-bug under "bonus bug".

Summary: if you want to do local development across multiple repos and so have npm linked them together, any loaders that accept files in node_modules/ (such as source-map-loader, which is explicitly intended for this purpose) must also be installed in each linked repo. This is is unexpected, sine the linked repo may not even use Webpack. It should only be necessary in the root repo, which is the one actually running Webpack.

[sokra]

This is fixed for webpack 2, as configured loaders in configuration resolve relative to the configuration instead of relative to the resource.

[seansfkelley]

Good to hear! Is it possible to get a backport to Webpack 1?