react_webpack_starter | React 16 and Webpack 4 starter pack

Using a simple starter react app with webpack-dev-server, it works on one computer but not another.

• Both computers are windows 10
• Using vscode/git bash on both
• node -v 9.11.1 on both
• npm -v 5.6.0 on both
• yarn -v 1.5.1 on both
• Tried both yarn and npm
• Deleted all global npm modules in ~/appdata/roaming/npm on both computers

This is not my repo but a simple one that works for testing. Comes from awesome video.

git clone https://github.com/bradtraversy/react_webpack_starter cd react_webpack_starter npm install npm start (runs webpack-dev-server --mode development --open --hot)

Browser opens with "My React App"

• Directory listing instead of app, shown here.
• This indicates webpack --contentBase issue, but when I set it to src/, the index.html file is shown, but it appears like no react code is processed.
• terminal output here

I don't know what the issue is on the env with the non-working computer. Symptoms indicate it is not the repo or code, but has to be in how my env. Spent 6 hours working on this issue on the computer where it fails. Though it was me being an idiot somewhere, just to have it work on a different computer. Anyone have any ideas on what the difference in environments could be?

As per Peter Liang's suggestion,

• I tried cloning repo into C:\testtest and it worked.
• I tried cloning repo into C:\test test and it failed (showed directory listing).

Webpack-dev-server doesn't seem to be able to deal with paths with spaces.

Added an issue to webpack-dev-server github here