Bootstrap 4 Beta importing Popper.js with Webpack 3.x throws Popper is not a constructor

Question

So Bootstrap 4 Beta is out... yey! However Tether has been replaced by Popper.js for tooltip (and other features). I saw an error thrown in the console fast enough to advise me of the change to Popper.js:

Bootstrap dropdown require Popper.js

Seems easy enough, I went and updated my webpack.config.js (the entire config can be seen here) and Bootstrap then started working (the only change I did was to replace Tether with Popper):

plugins: [
new ProvidePlugin({
  'Promise': 'bluebird',
  '$': 'jquery',
  'jQuery': 'jquery',
  'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
  'window.$': 'jquery',
  Popper: 'popper.js' 
}),

I also did the import 'bootstrap' in my main.ts file.

However I now have another problem (which I did not have with Tether), a new error is thrown in the console:

Uncaught TypeError: Popper is not a constructor

If I try to debug in Chrome, I do have Popper loaded as an Object (which is why Bootstrap stopped complaining) as you can see in the print screen below.

Finally to include all my code. I use Bootstrap tooltip with a simple custom element built with Aurelia and TypeScript (which used to work with previous Bootstrap alpha 6 and Tether)

import {inject, customAttribute} from 'aurelia-framework';
import * as $ from 'jquery';

@customAttribute('bootstrap-tooltip')
@inject(Element)
export class BootstrapTooltip {
  element: HTMLElement;

  constructor(element: HTMLElement) {
    this.element = element;
  }

  bind() {
    $(this.element).tooltip();
  }

  unbind() {
    $(this.element).tooltip('dispose');
  }
}

Looks like I did not import Popper correctly, if so then what is the best way to achieve that with Webpack 3.x?

Answer 1

While browsing Bootstrap 4 documentation. I actually found a section about Webpack which explains how to install it correctly. Following the Bootstrap - installing with Webpack documentation, the answer is to simply modify the webpack.config.js with the following:

plugins: [
  // ...
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    'window.jQuery': 'jquery',
    Popper: ['popper.js', 'default']
  })
  // ...
]

and let's not forget to import it in the main.ts

import 'bootstrap';

and voilà! We are back in business :)

Answer 2

If you are using Webpack Do this:

window.$ = window.jQuery = require('jquery');
window.Popper = require('popper.js').default; // pay attention to "default"
require('bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap');