Javascript assets included in CSS modules are executed during build

[darrenscerri]

If CSS contains Javascript assets, these are executed during build and can interfere with the build and build output.

See this repo for more information: https://github.com/darrenscerri/webpack-extract-text-plugin-empty-require-error.

Related issues:
webpack/webpack#4541
webpack-contrib/css-loader#462

[michael-ciniawsky]

url('') will be rewritten to url(require('./')) by css-loader, it's an issue in css-loader tracking this an discussion moved to #462 I'm still wondering about the 'usecase' 🙃