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A relatively fresh Symfony 4.1.7 project after installing Webpack Encore throws the error

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template
("Could not find the entrypoints file from Webpack: the file
".../public/build/entrypoints.json" does not exist.")

where the template includes
{{ encore_entry_link_tags('app') }}
when launching http://127.0.0.1:8000/

What have I missed?

$ yarn encore dev

Running webpack ...



 DONE  Compiled successfully in 1974ms



 I  3 files written to publicbuild

Done in 3.33s.

.../public/build contains

app.css

app.js

manifest.json

local Symfony versions:

symfony/webpack-encore-bundle       v1.0.0

symfony/webpack-encore-pack         v1.0.3

webpack.config.js:

var Encore = require('@symfony/webpack-encore');



Encore

    // the project directory where compiled assets will be stored

    .setOutputPath('public/build/')

    // the public path used by the web server to access the previous directory

    .setPublicPath('/build')

    .cleanupOutputBeforeBuild()

    .enableSourceMaps(!Encore.isProduction())

    // uncomment to create hashed filenames (e.g. app.abc123.css)

    // .enableVersioning(Encore.isProduction())



    // uncomment to define the assets of the project

    .addEntry('app', './assets/js/app.js')

//     .addEntry('js/app', './assets/js/app.js')

//     .addStyleEntry('css/app')

//     .addStyleEntry('css/app', './assets/css/app.scss')



    // uncomment if you use Sass/SCSS files

    // .enableSassLoader()



    // uncomment for legacy applications that require $/jQuery as a global variable

     .autoProvidejQuery()

;



module.exports = Encore.getWebpackConfig();

Update your version constraint in package.json for @symfony/webpack-encore to ^0.21.0

...

"devDependencies": {

    "@symfony/webpack-encore": "^0.21.0",

...

add .enableSingleRuntimeChunk() to your webpack.config.js

...

.addEntry('app', './assets/js/app.js')

//     .addEntry('js/app', './assets/js/app.js')

//     .addStyleEntry('css/app')

//     .addStyleEntry('css/app', './assets/css/app.scss')

.enableSingleRuntimeChunk()

...

Then run yarn upgrade or yarn install

PS: If you have symfony/webpack-encore-bundle installed, you can remove symfony/webpack-encore-pack

composer remove symfony/webpack-encore-pack

In case somebody is running into a similar issue on staging or production servers: Make sure the asset build is run in the deployment process. On Heroku, for example, you need to use a postinstall script.

{

    "devDependencies": {

        "@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^5.5.0",

        "@symfony/webpack-encore": "^0.22.0",

        "webpack-notifier": "^1.6.0"

    },

    "license": "UNLICENSED",

    "private": true,

    "scripts": {

        "dev-server": "encore dev-server",

        "dev": "encore dev",

        "watch": "encore dev --watch",

        "postinstall": "encore production --progress" // executed during deployment to Heroku

    },

    "dependencies": {

        "bootstrap": "^4.1.3",

        "fontawesome": "^4.7.2",

        "jquery": "^3.3.1",

        "node-sass": "^4.10.0",

        "popper.js": "^1.14.6",

        "sass-loader": "^7.1.0"

    }

}