create-react-app installs with webpack 1.14

[goztrk]

Can you reproduce the problem with latest npm?

Yes

Description

create-react-app my-app installs the new app correctly. But it has Webpack 1.14 on dev-dependencies.
cleared npm-cache on %appdata%/npm-cache
checked package.tgz on npm-cache folder. This is what package.json has:

{
  "name": "react-scripts",
  "version": "0.9.0",
  "description": "Configuration and scripts for Create React App.",
  "repository": "facebookincubator/create-react-app",
  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=4"
  },
  "bugs": {
    "url": "https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues"
  },
  "files": [
    ".babelrc",
    ".eslintrc",
    "bin",
    "config",
    "scripts",
    "template",
    "utils"
  ],
  "bin": {
    "react-scripts": "./bin/react-scripts.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "autoprefixer": "6.7.2",
    "babel-core": "6.22.1",
    "babel-eslint": "7.1.1",
    "babel-jest": "18.0.0",
    "babel-loader": "6.2.10",
    "babel-preset-react-app": "^2.1.0",
    "babel-runtime": "^6.20.0",
    "case-sensitive-paths-webpack-plugin": "1.1.4",
    "chalk": "1.1.3",
    "connect-history-api-fallback": "1.3.0",
    "cross-spawn": "4.0.2",
    "css-loader": "0.26.1",
    "detect-port": "1.0.1",
    "dotenv": "2.0.0",
    "eslint": "3.8.1",
    "eslint-config-react-app": "^0.5.1",
    "eslint-loader": "1.6.0",
    "eslint-plugin-flowtype": "2.21.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.0.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "2.2.3",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "6.4.1",
    "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "1.0.1",
    "file-loader": "0.10.0",
    "filesize": "3.3.0",
    "fs-extra": "0.30.0",
    "gzip-size": "3.0.0",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "2.24.0",
    "http-proxy-middleware": "0.17.3",
    "jest": "18.1.0",
    "json-loader": "0.5.4",
    "object-assign": "4.1.1",
    "postcss-loader": "1.2.2",
    "promise": "7.1.1",
    "react-dev-utils": "^0.5.0",
    "recursive-readdir": "2.1.0",
    "strip-ansi": "3.0.1",
    "style-loader": "0.13.1",
    "url-loader": "0.5.7",
    "webpack": "1.14.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "1.16.2",
    "webpack-manifest-plugin": "1.1.0",
    "whatwg-fetch": "2.0.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "react": "^15.3.0",
    "react-dom": "^15.3.0"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
    "fsevents": "1.0.17"
  }
}

Expected behavior

Webpack ^2 should be installed

Actual behavior

Webpack 1.14 being installed

Environment

1. npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected): react-scripts@0.9.0
2. node -v: 6.9.2
3. npm -v: 4.2.0

Then, specify:

1. Operating system: Windows 10
2. Browser and version: Chrome 56

Reproducible Demo

None

[gaearon]

The behavior is correct. Webpack 2 support has just been merged to master a few days ago, and it will take a little while before it shows up in the stable release. The upside is it gives us some more time to test it and fix any issues. 😉

Hope this helps!