From 0d6e77c9b967df4ba56910c3fe7c4790839dc5cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Luca <aluca@winify.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 12:24:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Stop webpack from resolving symlinks

Webpack will not resolve symlinks to real folders
This allows to symlink into 'src' folder
https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+symlinks

fixes: #3547 and others...
---
 packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js  | 4 ++++
 packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
index 9f3131b0660..03e6b7ad4ca 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ module.exports = {
       path.resolve(info.absoluteResourcePath).replace(/\\/g, '/'),
   },
   resolve: {
+    // This will tell webpack to not resolve symlinks to actual folders
+    // Symlinks into `src` folder will work with this option
+    // default value is set to `true`
+    symlinks: false,
     // This allows you to set a fallback for where Webpack should look for modules.
     // We placed these paths second because we want `node_modules` to "win"
     // if there are any conflicts. This matches Node resolution mechanism.
diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
index 3b2a2068db2..fb0451102a2 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ module.exports = {
         .replace(/\\/g, '/'),
   },
   resolve: {
+    // This will tell webpack to not resolve symlinks to actual folders
+    // Symlinks into `src` folder will work with this option
+    // default value is set to `true`
+    symlinks: false,
     // This allows you to set a fallback for where Webpack should look for modules.
     // We placed these paths second because we want `node_modules` to "win"
     // if there are any conflicts. This matches Node resolution mechanism.