webpack-bundle-tracker not creating webpack-stats.json?

Question

I am trying to use Vue and Django together as described in this article. Everything seems to be working except for the webpack-bundle-tracker. I'm pretty sure that webpack-bundle-tracker is not even installed as this happens when I run yarn add webpack-bundle-tracker --dev:

yarn add v1.22.4
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/core-js: self signed certificate in certificate chain".

However when I run npm install --save-dev webpack-bundle-tracker it seems to work? but nothing really changes and no webpack-stats.json file is generated.

The other thing could be the django-webpack-loader, as when I ran pip install django-webpack-loader gives off a bunch of permissions errors, but it worked when I ran pip install django-webpack-loader --trusted-host pypi.python.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org --trusted-host pypi.org.

The error django gives me when I try to open my vue/django test page:

Error reading /Users/$ME/Dev/digiproj/vue_frontend/webpack-stats.json. Are you sure webpack has generated the file and the path is correct?

Just not sure where to go from here and would greatly appreciate any help.

Answer 1

I had the same issue, also running Django with django-webpack-loader, and I also found that the webpack-stats.json file was not being generated. I fixed it by downgrading webpack-bundle-tracker to 0.4.3. I'm not sure why the latest version of this package does not work.