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So I'm creating a react component which will be deployed with UMD format and can be consumed from unpkg. It is built using webpack.

Webpack config creating the UMD module with external modules:

module.exports = {
     plugins: [
            new StyleLintPlugin(),
            new CleanWebpackPlugin(['../dist']),
            new ExtractTextPlugin("index.css")       
    ],
   resolve:{
     extensions: ["",".scss", ".webpack.js", ".web.js", ".ts", ".tsx", ".js"]
   },
   module: {
        preLoaders: [
            {
                test: /\.tsx$/,
                loader: 'tslint-loader'
            }
       ],
       loaders: [
           { test: /\.scss$/, loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("css-loader!postcss-loader!sass-loader")},
           { test: /\.css$/, loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("css-loader!postcss-loader")},          
           { test: /\.tsx?$/, loader: "awesome-typescript-loader",exclude: /node_modules/,query:{declaration:false} },
           {
               test: /\.(png|ttf|eot|svg|woff(2)?)(\?[a-z0-9]+)?$/,
               loader: 'file-loader',
           }
       ]
   },
    devtool: 'source-map',
    output: {
        filename: '[name].js',
        path: path.resolve(__dirname,"..", 'dist'),
        library: 'productupload',
        libraryTarget: 'umd',
        umdNamedDefine: true,
        //publicPath: '/'
    }
    externals: {
      'react': 'commonjs react', 
      'react-dom':'commonjs react-dom',
      'mongodb':'commonjs mongodb',
      'express':'commonjs express'
    }
};

This then creates the package you can see here

And I try to get the react component with the HTML:

            <!DOCTYPE html>
            <html lang="en">
            <head>
            <meta charset="UTF-8">
            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
            <title>Upload Component</title>
            <meta name="description" content="It will upload generic product data to server.">
            <meta name="author" content="Alexander Morton">
            <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/16.0.0/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
            <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.0.0/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
            <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/babel-standalone/6.21.1/babel.min.js"></script>
            <script src="https://unpkg.com/@mortonprod/product-upload@1.0.1/dist/inputBuilder.min.js"></script>
            </head>
            <body>
            <div id="root"></div>
            <section>
            </section>
            <footer>
                Product Upload component create by Alexander Morton
            </footer>
            <script>window.__IDS__ = ${ids}</script>
            <script src= ${options.unpkgUI}></script>
            <script type="text/babel">
                ReactDOM.render(
                    <InputBuilder/>,
                    document.getElementById('root')
                );
            </script>
            </body>
            </html>

This should include react, react-dom and my component and then render it to the screen.

The error I get is:

inputBuilder.min.js:1 Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at Object.r.extends.Object.setPrototypeOf.__proto (inputBuilder.min.js:1) at e (inputBuilder.min.js:1) at Object. (inputBuilder.min.js:1) at e (inputBuilder.min.js:1) at i.extends.Object.setPrototypeOf.__proto (inputBuilder.min.js:1) at inputBuilder.min.js:1 at inputBuilder.min.js:1

Require should not be defined in the browser right? Why does webpack use it then?

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