DevTools failed to load SourceMap for webpack:///node_modules//....js.map HTTP error: status code 404, net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

I created a simple webpack based project to learn snabbdom. Everything was OK except that sourcemap failed loading:

I don't know whose issue(webpack, chrome) it is. Is there anyone who know it?

Reproduction steps:

git clone https://github.com/tomwang1013/snabbdom-test.git
npm install
npm run dev

Solution 1:

The source map you are trying to load is in node_modules and not part of webpack bundle. "If not extracted and processed into the source map of the webpack bundle, browsers may misinterpret source map data" ref. When app is loaded that causes "ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME" in chrome dev tools console.

To process node_module source maps to webpack bundle, use source-map-loader loader. That will fix console warnings.

Add dependency to package.json:

"devDependencies": {
        "source-map-loader": "^1.0.0",
        ...
      }

Update webpack.config.js:

module: {
rules: [
  {
    test: /\.js$/,
    enforce: 'pre',
    use: ['source-map-loader'],
  },
],

},

To generate source maps for snabbdom-test project in general you can use SourceMapDevToolPlugin.

Update webpack.config.js:

const { SourceMapDevToolPlugin } = require("webpack");

plugins: [
  new SourceMapDevToolPlugin({
    filename: "[file].map"
  }),
...
],

Solution 2:

Update webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
    // ...
    entry: {
      "app": "src/app.js"
    },
    output: {
      path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist'),
      filename: "[name].js",
      sourceMapFilename: "[name].js.map"
    },
    devtool: "source-map"
    // ...
};

Detailed in https://blog.sentry.io/2018/10/18/4-reasons-why-your-source-maps-are-broken

Solution 3:

  devtool: "eval-cheap-source-map"

Add this to your webpack config and that's it.