Can’t resolve ‘../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css’?

I am trying to use react-bootstrap-table2 in my project to create a simple bootstrap table, but am getting the error:

Failed to Compile: Module not found: Can’t resolve ‘../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css’ in ‘/Users/xxx/Documents/xxx/src/routes/home’.

I did install all the necessary packages and verified that bootstrap.min.css exists where it should.

My code looks like this:

import React from 'react';
import '../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css'; 
import BootstrapTable from 'react-bootstrap-table-next';

class Home extends React.Component {
  state = {
    products: [
      {
        id: 1,
        name: 'TV',
        'price': 1000
      },
      {
        id: 2,
        name: 'Mobile',
        'price': 500
      },
      {
        id: 3,
        name: 'Book',
        'price': 20
      },
    ],
    columns: [{
      dataField: 'id',
      text: 'Product ID'
    },
    {
      dataField: 'name',
      text: 'Product Name'
    }, {
      dataField: 'price',
      text: 'Product Price',
      sort: true
    }]
  } 

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="container" style={{ marginTop: 50 }}>
        <BootstrapTable 
        striped
        hover
        keyField='id' 
        data={ this.state.products } 
        columns={ this.state.columns } />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default Home;

My package.json file looks like this:

{
  "name": "codist.org",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "bootstrap": "^4.0.0",
    "material-ui": "^1.0.0-beta.25",
    "material-ui-icons": "^1.0.0-beta.17",
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-bootstrap-table-next": "^1.1.3",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0",
    "react-router-dom": "^4.2.2",
    "react-scripts": "^1.1.5",
    "reactstrap": "^6.3.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "proxy": "http://localhost:8080"
}

Any suggestions for how to resolve that error?

Answer

Try this:

import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';

When not specifying a path, Node/webpack will search for the import inside node_modules folder. I’m not sure what’s going wrong, but this is the correct way to import modules from the node_modules folder.