Mini-css-extract-plugin: sass-loader + mini-css-extract-plugin , ignore sass dependencies, generated css is missing in the output dir

[fvigotti]

I'm totally new to webpack, and I'm not sure if I'm wrong or the software is, but after days lost about this , to me seems a bug.. , to make the things easy to reproduce I've created a demo project:

https://github.com/fvigotti/webpack-problem-scss

here is the whole code :
https://github.com/fvigotti/webpack-problem-scss/commit/02521d1ccaf0ea1a5fd0bab4024206d5eee3fbe7

the readme contain the bug description but I'll paste here too to make this issue complete

how to test :

git clone https://github.com/fvigotti/webpack-problem-scss  

cd webpack-problem-scss  
npm install
npm run build

# expected results : 
sass + css included in ./dist

# result : 
only css ( not the sass compiled source code)  included in ./dist 

output:

⇒  npm run build                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              [Ξ][9:25:48]
> NODE_ENV=production webpack 

clean-webpack-plugin: --/webpack-problem-scss/dist has been removed.
Hash: 3d60b2342eae7054eb58
Version: webpack 4.5.0
Time: 425ms
Built at: 2018-4-8 09:26:21
      Asset       Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
  index.css   28 bytes       0  [emitted]  index
   index.js  940 bytes       0  [emitted]  index
contact.css   28 bytes       1  [emitted]  contact
 contact.js  933 bytes       1  [emitted]  contact
Entrypoint contact = contact.css contact.js
Entrypoint index = index.css index.js
   [1] ./src/css/style.css 39 bytes {0} {1} [built]
   [2] ./src/js/math.js 136 bytes {0} {1} [built]
   [3] ./src/entrypoint/index.js 258 bytes {0} [built]
   [4] multi ./src/entrypoint/index.js 28 bytes {0} [built]
   [5] ./src/entrypoint/contact.js 244 bytes {1} [built]
   [6] multi ./src/entrypoint/contact.js 28 bytes {1} [built]
   [8] ./src/scss/index.scss 39 bytes [built]
    + 2 hidden modules

WARNING in configuration
The 'mode' option has not been set, webpack will fallback to 'production' for this value. Set 'mode' option to 'development' or 'production' to enable defaults for each environment.
You can also set it to 'none' to disable any default behavior. Learn more: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/mode/
Child mini-css-extract-plugin node_modules/css-loader/index.js!node_modules/postcss-loader/lib/index.js!src/css/style.css:
    Entrypoint mini-css-extract-plugin = *
       [1] ./node_modules/css-loader!./node_modules/postcss-loader/lib!./src/css/style.css 191 bytes {0} [built]
        + 1 hidden module
Child mini-css-extract-plugin node_modules/css-loader/index.js!node_modules/sass-loader/lib/loader.js!src/scss/index.scss:
    Entrypoint mini-css-extract-plugin = *
       [1] ./node_modules/css-loader!./node_modules/sass-loader/lib/loader.js!./src/scss/index.scss 349 bytes {0} [built]
        + 1 hidden module


⇒  grep -rnw './src/'  -e 'IBM Plex Sans Condensed'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [↑2][9:27:51]
./src/scss/layout/styleb.scss:7:  font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans Condensed', sans-serif;

⇒  grep -rnw './dist/'  -e 'IBM Plex Sans Condensed'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [Ξ][9:27:54]

⇒  grep -rnw './dist/'  -e 'yellow'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [↑1][9:28:00]

⇒  grep -rnw './src/'  -e 'yellow'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           [↑1][9:28:14]
./src/scss/index.scss:8:$bg-color: yellow;

notes :

• css are extracted correctly by :

    { // this correctly extract the css
         test: /\.css$/, use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 'css-loader', 'postcss-loader']
    },

• but sass not with this :

      { // this doesn't extract the scss
        test: /\.scss$/, use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
          'css-loader',  //'postcss-loader',
          'sass-loader' ,
        ]
      },

note, there is an issue also opened on sass-loader plugin, I'm not sure which of the two components is giving me this headache
https://github.com/webpack-contrib/sass-loader/issues/553

Any ideas is appreciated ,
Thank you,
Francesco

[fvigotti]

I've found the problem,
In package.json ( which I've inherited from another project )
this :

"sideEffects": [
    "*.css"
  ],

caused this issue,
I don't know why if affected the only the scss and not the css, even when they are bot handled by same module ( and same rule ) only the css ( maybe is a bug, but minor in this case ) is exported and not the sass , anyway removing this from my sample project , now works :)
I'll add a commit to my project with a working version so it can still be referenced as working example

[frlinw]

I can confirm :

"sideEffects": [
    "*.css"
  ]

remove from the build the css file generated with mini-css-extract-plugin

[belgattitude]

Can confirm too, also with "sideEffects": false...

[Bulala-liu]

Hi, I also have found the problem.
So I add the config "sideEffects": [ "*.scss" ] into package.json,
but still there has three pages lost css.
this pages only import scss file like this:
import './index.scss';
I have no idea...