Webpack5 Automatic publicPath is not supported in this browser

Question

I was working on webpack 4.44.2, I face this error when I convert to webpack5.0.0

ERROR in ./src/assets/sass/styles.scss Module build failed (from ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js): Error: Automatic publicPath is not supported in this browser at E:\maktab\Control-panel\newcontrol\final-control\node_modules\css-loader\dist\cjs.js!

the error is from the font file bath in fonts.scss

@font-face {
    font-family: "Janna LT";
    src: local("Janna LT"), url(../fonts/janna.woff) format("woff");
    font-weight: normal;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: "Janna LT";
    src: local("Janna LT"), url(../fonts/janna-bold.woff) format("woff");
    font-weight: bold;
}

my src structure https://i.stack.imgur.com/vKyfW.png

dist structure https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLgmF.png

webpack.config.js

const path = require('path');

const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
const OptimizeCSSAssetsPlugin = require("optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin");
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");
const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
    entry:  {
      'main': './src/index.js',
    },
  
    output: {
      path: path.join(__dirname, "/dist"),
      filename: '[name].js',
    }, 

    devServer: {
        contentBase: path.join(__dirname, "/dist"),
        port: 8087,
        writeToDisk: true,
        overlay :true
    },
    

    module: {
        rules: [
    
            {
                test: /\.html$/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: "html-loader",
                    }
                ]
            },

            {
                test: /\.(sa|sc|c)ss$/,
                use: [
                MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 
                'css-loader', 
                'postcss-loader',
                'sass-loader'
                ]
            },
                    
            {
                test: /\.(png|svg|jpe?g|gif)$/,
                exclude: /fonts/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: "file-loader", 
                        options: {
                        name: '[name].[ext]',
                        outputPath: "/assets/images",
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },

            {
                test: /\.(svg|eot|woff|woff2|ttf)$/,
                exclude: /images/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: "file-loader", 
                        options: {
                        name: '[name].[ext]',
                        outputPath: "assets/fonts",
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },

        ]
    },

    plugins: [
        new CleanWebpackPlugin(),

        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ 
          filename: "index.html",
          template: "./src/index.html",
          chunks: ['main']
        }),
      

        new MiniCssExtractPlugin({filename: "assets/css/styles.css"}),
        new OptimizeCSSAssetsPlugin({}),
    ]
    
} 

styles.scss

@import "base/fonts";
@import "base/global";
@import "base/typography";
@import "base/links";
@import "components/components";
@import "components/demo";

index.js

import './assets/sass/styles.scss';
import 'normalize.css/normalize.css';

console.log("hellow from webpack5");

Answer 1

The suggested solutions didn't work for me. However, I found that setting publicPath to an empty string did the trick.

output: {
  publicPath: '',
  ...
}

Answer 2

I encountered the same issue. My code compiles into the dist-folder without any further structure. The following code works for me and is simple since I need an empty path.

'module': {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.css$/,
                use: [
                    {
                        loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 
                        options: {
                            publicPath: ''
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        loader: "css-loader"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }

You can go crazy and do things like that, too:

{
    loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
    options: {
        publicPath: (resourcePath, context) => {
            return path.relative(path.dirname(resourcePath), context) + '/';
        },
    },
},

Details you can find here: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/mini-css-extract-plugin/#the-publicpath-option-as-function

Answer 3

The error is caused by a bug in mini-css-extract-plugin 1.3.8 and lower in combination with Webpack 5. It is triggered when a stylesheet references a resource using url(...) and the publicPath option is not set explicitly in the Webpack configuration.

I took the time to reproduce and report the issue here: https://github.com/webpack-contrib/mini-css-extract-plugin/issues/707

Yesterday, version 1.3.9 has been released and it includes the fix for this issue. You should be able to resolve this error by upgrading.