Error in webpack

[Regaddi]

Hi,

when trying to require ical-generator via const ical = require('ical-generator'); webpack throws the following error:

ERROR in ./~/ical-generator/lib/calendar.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '/my-project/node_modules/ical-generator/lib'
 @ ./~/ical-generator/lib/calendar.js 411:8-21 425:15-28
 @ ./~/ical-generator/lib/index.js
 ...

Can't get it up and running 😢

[Regaddi]

Nevermind. It was totally webpack related and had nothing to do with your package 😄

[rally25rs]

@Regaddi do you remember what you did to "fix" this? Did you just have webpack ignore the fs package?

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Edit:

For anyone else who ends up here, you need to add to your Webpack config:

  node: {
    fs: 'empty'
  },

ical-generator only uses the fs module to save the ical file to the filesystem, so as long as you don't call .save() it will work fine in a web environment.

[sebbo2002]

@rally25rs I'll add this to the docs later, thank you!

[CoffeyMachine]

This solution worked for me with Angular 8 (without Ivy)
https://gist.github.com/niespodd/1fa82da6f8c901d1c33d2fcbb762947d

[djplaner]

Seems recent updates to webpack break the previous solution. The error I was seeing

[webpack-cli] Invalid configuration object. Webpack has been initialized using a configuration object that does not match the API schema.
 - configuration.node has an unknown property 'fs'. These properties are valid:
   object { __dirname?, __filename?, global? }
   -> Options object for node compatibility features.

The solution that worked for me is from StackOverflow. Add the following to webpack configuration

resolve: {
  fallback: {
    fs: false
  }
}

[sebbo2002]

@djplaner Thanks for your note, I updated the readme in ee2cb70