Error installing on iojs 3.0.0

[eugene1g]

Socket.io fails to build on the recently release iojs 3 (as per socketio/socket.io#2213) which means webpack-dev-server fails to build as well. Leaving the issue here as a reference note, but nothing can be done about this until the upstream problem is resolved.

P.S. socket.io fails because of the ws dependency issue as tracked at websockets/ws#549 which has been fixed with updated dependencies as per websockets/ws@ee66071 and awaits publishing to npm. Once ws publishes, socket.io will bump it's dependency version, then webpack-dev-server should work on iojs 3

[framerate]

Confirming I see this exact behavior!

[dlong500]

Is this fixed now that Nodejs 4.0 (based on iojs) is released?

[eugene1g]

webpack-dev-server relies on socket.io, and socket.io currently cannot be compiled on Nodejs4. However, the patch has been applied to socket.io (socketio/socket.io@210e688) and now webpack awaits for them to cut a new release. A lot of other projects are in the same boat, so it's likely to happen very soon.

[lucasterra]

@dlong500 no.

[ChALkeR]

Adding to the list: nodejs/node#2798.

[eugene1g]

webpack-dev-server depends on two socket.io packages that have just been patched to work on iojs3 or node4. They haven't cut new releases yet, but you can change the webpack-dev-server package.json file to use the patched versions directly like so

    "socket.io": "socketio/socket.io#210e68",
    "socket.io-client": "socketio/socket.io-client#4c22f3",

Of course this hack isn't a lasting solution and can't be done in production, but for now it's a simple workaround to get the dev-server stuff working again in your dev environment.

[SpaceK33z]

A new version of socket.io including the patch is now released, so after re-adding the webpack-dev-server package this issue should be fixed. Please test this.

[jdhiro]

@SpaceK33z I've confirmed that it works now.