Webpack error interpreting React modules/files

Question

Currently I have two files in my webpack script build, script.js and contact-menu.js. If I create react components on the main script.js file, it translates ok. If create React components in contact-menu.js and try export import it gives the following error:

> ERROR in ./babel/contact-menu.js Module parse failed:
> /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mcdonalds excavation/themes/mcdonalds/babel/contact-menu.js
> Unexpected token (7:3) You may need an appropriate loader to handle
> this file type. |     render(){ |         return( |           <div
> id="contact-menu-container"> |                <div id="contact-menu-btn"> |
>                   Close  @ ./babel/script.js 11:19-47

I have tried renaming the files from js to jsx, aswell as changing the entry point on my webpack config

webpack config

var path = require('path');
var debug = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';
var webpack = require('webpack');


module.exports = {
    context: __dirname,
    devtool: debug ? 'inline-sourcemap' : null,
    entry: './babel/script.js',
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
        filename: 'script.js'
    },
    module: {
        loaders: [{
            test: /\.js?$/,
            exclude: /(node_modules|bower_components)/,
            include: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'babel/script.js')],
            loader: 'babel-loader',
            query: {
                presets: ['react', 'es2015', 'stage-3'],
                plugins: ['transform-react-jsx']
            }
        }, {
            test: /\.scss$/,
            include: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'sass')],
            loaders: ['style-loader', 'css-loader', 'sass-loader']
        }, {
            test: /\.(jpe?g|png|gif|svg)$/i,
            loader: "file-loader"
        }]
    },
    plugins: debug ? [] : [
        new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
        new webpack.optimize.OccurenceOrderPlugin(),
        new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({
            mangle: false,
            sourcemap: false
        }),
    ],
};

package.json

   {
      "name": "react-kit",
      "version": "3.0.0",
      "description": "React Build Kit With Webpack.",
      "main": "webpack.config.js",
      "dependencies": {
        "react": "^15.4.2",
        "react-dom": "^15.4.2"
      },
      "devDependencies": {
        "axios": "^0.15.3",
        "babel-cli": "^6.18.0",
        "babel-core": "^6.21.0",
        "babel-loader": "^6.2.10",
        "babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx": "^6.8.0",
        "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
        "babel-preset-react": "^6.16.0",
        "babel-preset-stage-3": "^6.5.0",
        "css-loader": "^0.26.1",
        "fetch-jsonp": "^1.0.6",
        "history": "^1.17.0",
        "node-sass": "^4.5.0",
        "react-router": "^3.0.1",
        "sass-loader": "^5.0.1",
        "style-loader": "^0.13.1",
        "webpack": "^2.2.1",
        "webpack-dev-server": "^1.14.1"
      },

  "author": "",
  "license": "MIT"
}

script.jsx

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

ReactDOM.render(
    <ContactMenu />,
    document.getElementById('contact-menu')
)

contact-menu.jsx

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'

export default class ContactMenu extends React.Component{
    render(){
        return(
            <div id="contact-menu-container">
                <div id="contact-menu-btn">
                    Close
                </div>
                <div id="contact-menu">

                </div>
            </div>
        )
    }
}

Answer 1

I believe this line in your webpack configuration is the problem:

include: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'babel/script.js')],

The webpack documentation is fairly sparse, but it appears that if include is specified only the paths in it will be transformed by the loader. If you omit that option, all paths that pass test and aren't listed in exclude should be transformed by the loader, including contact-menu.js.