Edits by @JLHwung

Edits by @JLHwung

If you hit this issue via search engines, please refer to https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/8599#issuecomment-417880788.

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## Bug Report

**Current Behavior**
Recently I'm trying to setup babel with webpack. and I'm getting an error.

```
ERROR in ./src/index.js
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js):
Error: Cannot find module '@babel/core'
ERROR in ./src/index.js
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js):
Error: Cannot find module '@babel/core'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0 build: `webpack --mode production`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0 build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Mentos\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-09-01T10_50_57_222Z-debug.log
```

**package.json**
```js
{
"name": "webpack-4-tutorial",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"dev": "webpack --mode development",
"build": "webpack --mode production"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.26.3",
"babel-loader": "^8.0.0",
"babel-preset-env": "^1.7.0",
"webpack": "^4.17.1",
"webpack-cli": "^3.1.0"
}
}
```

**package.json**
```js
// webpack v4
const path = require('path');
module.exports = {
entry: { main: './src/index.js' },
output: {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'dist'),
filename: 'main.js'
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: "babel-loader"
}
}
]
}
};
```

**Expected behavior/code**
**Babel Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)**

```js
{
"presets": [
"env"
]
}
```
**debug.log**
```js
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'build' ]
2 info using npm@6.2.0
3 info using node@v10.9.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'prebuild', 'build', 'postbuild' ]
5 info lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~prebuild: webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0
6 info lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0
7 verbose lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;D:\Playground\webpack-4-tutorial\node_modules\.bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Users\Mentos\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;;C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\Mentos\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\Mentos\AppData\Roaming\npm
9 verbose lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: CWD: D:\Playground\webpack-4-tutorial
10 silly lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'webpack --mode production' ]
11 silly lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: Returned: code: 2 signal: null
12 info lifecycle webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0~build: Failed to exec build script
13 verbose stack Error: webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0 build: `webpack --mode production`
13 verbose stack Exit status 2
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:304:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:182:13)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:961:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:250:5)
14 verbose pkgid webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0
15 verbose cwd D:\Playground\webpack-4-tutorial
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17134
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "build"
18 verbose node v10.9.0
19 verbose npm v6.2.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 2
22 error webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0 build: `webpack --mode production`
22 error Exit status 2
23 error Failed at the webpack-4-tutorial@1.0.0 build script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 2, true ]

```
**Environment**
- Babel version(s): 6.26.3
- Node/npm version: Node 10.9.0/npm 6.2]
- OS: Windows 10
- How you are using Babel:loader

**Possible Solution**

**Additional context/Screenshots**
I follow the same step in past and it was work fine.


_Originally posted by @palak-temp in https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/8599_