reactjs - window not defined error when using extract-text-webpack-plugin React

Question

I'm using webpack to build my react components and I'm trying to use the extract-text-webpack-plugin to separate my css from my generated js file. However, when I attempt to build the component I get the following error: Module build failed: ReferenceError: window is not defined.

My webpack.config.js file looks like this:

var webpack = require('webpack');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  entry: {
    MainComponent: './src/main.js'
  },
  output: {
    libraryTarget: 'var',
    library: 'MainComponent',
    path: './build',
    filename: '[name].js'
  },
  module: {
    loaders: [{
      test: /.css$/, loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader!css-loader')
    }]
  },
  plugins: [
    new ExtractTextPlugin('styles.css')
  ]
}

Answer 1

You may want to use style-loader as a before argument in extract function.

Here's the native implementation:

    ExtractTextPlugin.extract = function(before, loader, options) {
        if(typeof loader === "string") {
            return [
                ExtractTextPlugin.loader(mergeOptions({omit: before.split("!").length, extract: true, remove: true}, options)),
                before,
                loader
            ].join("!");
        } else {
            options = loader;
            loader = before;
            return [
                ExtractTextPlugin.loader(mergeOptions({remove: true}, options)),
                loader
            ].join("!");
        }
    };

So basicaly what you need to do is:

{
    test: /.sass$/,
    exclude: /node_modules/,
    loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style-loader', 'css!sass?indentedSyntax=true&sourceMap=true')
},

if you for example use sass.