diff --git a/packages/react-error-overlay/src/utils/unmapper.js b/packages/react-error-overlay/src/utils/unmapper.js
index 524b5258752..40f4528c0e4 100644
--- a/packages/react-error-overlay/src/utils/unmapper.js
+++ b/packages/react-error-overlay/src/utils/unmapper.js
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ async function unmap(
     }
     let { fileName } = frame;
     if (fileName) {
+      // The web version of this module only provides POSIX support, so Windows
+      // paths like C:\foo\\baz\..\\bar\ cannot be normalized.
+      // A simple solution to this is to replace all `\` with `/`, then
+      // normalize afterwards.
       fileName = path.normalize(fileName.replace(/[\\]+/g, '/'));
     }
     if (fileName == null) {
@@ -64,6 +68,7 @@ async function unmap(
     const fN: string = fileName;
     const source = map
       .getSources()
+      // Prepare path for normalization; see comment above for reasoning.
       .map(s => s.replace(/[\\]+/g, '/'))
       .filter(p => {
         p = path.normalize(p);