'import' and 'export' may only appear at the top level

Question

I'm using webpack with vuejs. Webpack does its thing, but when I look at the outputted app.js file, it gives me this error.

'import' and 'export' may only appear at the top level

I'm assuming it's a problem with babel not converting the code? Because I'm getting this in the browser when viewing the application.

Unexpected token import

Here's my entry.js for my vuejs application:

/*jshint esversion: 6 */
import Vue from 'vue';
import App from './App.vue';
import VueRouter from 'vue-router';
Vue.use(VueRouter);
require('./css/style.scss');

// Export the vue router
export var router = new VueRouter({
  hashbang: false,
  root: '/'
  // history: true
});

// Set up routing and match routes to components
router.map({
  '/': {
    component: require('./components/home/Home.vue')
  }
});

// Redirect to the home route if any routes are unmatched
router.redirect({
  '*': '/'
});

// Start the app on the #app div
router.start(App, '#app');

Here's my webpack.config.js:

var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
var path = require('path');

module.exports = {
  entry: './src/entry.js',
  output: {
      filename: './public/js/app.js'
  },
  devtool: 'source-map',
  plugins: [
    new ExtractTextPlugin('./public/css/style.css')
  ],
  module: {
    preLoaders: [{
        test: /\.js$/, 
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loader: 'jshint-loader'
    }],
    loaders: [{
        test: /\.scss$/,
        loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract(
            'style',
            'css!sass'
        ),
    },
    {
        test: /\.vue$/,
        loader: 'vue'
    },
    {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        include: [
          path.resolve(__dirname, "src/services"),
        ],
        loader: 'babel-loader',
        query: {
          presets: ['es2015']
        }
    }]
  }
};

Here's my packages.json file:

{
  "name": "test-webpack",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Myapp",
  "main": "entry.js",
  "scripts": {
    "watch": "webpack-dev-server  --host $IP --port $PORT  --hot --inline --config webpack.config.js",
    "dev": "webpack",
    "build": ""
  },
  "author": "Dev",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.9.1",
    "babel-loader": "^6.2.4",
    "babel-plugin-transform-class-properties": "^6.10.2",
    "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.9.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.9.0",
    "babel-runtime": "^6.9.2",
    "css-loader": "^0.23.1",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^1.0.1",
    "jshint": "^2.9.2",
    "jshint-loader": "^0.8.3",
    "node-sass": "^3.8.0",
    "path": "^0.12.7",
    "sass-loader": "^3.2.0",
    "style-loader": "^0.13.1",
    "vue-hot-reload-api": "^1.3.2",
    "vue-html-loader": "^1.2.2",
    "vue-loader": "^8.5.2",
    "vue-style-loader": "^1.0.0",
    "webpack": "^1.13.1",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^1.14.1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "vue": "^1.0.25",
    "vue-router": "^0.7.13"
  }
}

Answer 1

I got this error when I was missing a closing bracket.

Simplified recreation:

const foo = () => {
  return (
    'bar'
  );
}; <== this bracket was missing

export default foo;

Answer 2

'import' and 'export' may only appear at the top level

This means that webpack is bundling the non-transpiled ES6 code, which is why these import/export statements are being found. babel-loader must therefore not be transpiling what you expect.

If you simply remove the include and exclude rules from its loader config, the default behavior of transpiling everything besides what's in node_modules will kick in. For some reason or another, the current rules are causing some/all files to be skipped.

module.exports = {
  entry: './src/entry.js',
  output: {
    filename: './public/js/app.js'
  },
  devtool: 'source-map',
  plugins: [
    new ExtractTextPlugin('./public/css/style.css')
  ],
  module: {
    preLoaders: [{
      test: /\.js$/, 
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      loader: 'jshint-loader'
    }],
    loaders: [{
      test: /\.scss$/,
      loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract(
        'style',
        'css!sass'
      ),
    },
    {
      test: /\.vue$/,
      loader: 'vue'
    },
    {
      test: /\.js$/,
      loader: 'babel-loader',
      query: {
        presets: ['es2015']
      }
    }]
  }
};