Webpack failure: "ENOTDIR: not a directory, stat 'node_modules/.cache/hard-source/.DS_Store/stamp'"

Question

I have created a new project with react-slingshot starter and after running the webpack the second time I faced the following problem (persists):

1. The app cannot load in the browser, it keeps waiting for the response from the webpack dev server.

2. And in the terminal I see the error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, stat 'node_modules/.cache/hard-source/.DS_Store/stamp'.

I can fix it by deleting the .DS_Store file, but that helps only until the next code change. Basically, I have to restart the webpack (and delete the file) for every source code change, which is very slow and painful feedback.

I have tried to search for this problem and stumbled on this issue. I have applied the suggestion to exclude the .DS_Store using HardSourceWebpackPlugin.ExcludeModulePlugin:

plugins: [
    new HardSourceWebpackPlugin(),
    new HardSourceWebpackPlugin.ExcludeModulePlugin([
      {
        test: /.*\.DS_Store/
      }
    ]),
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    ...
],

But that didn't help—the problem persists.

Can you help me to somehow resolve this?