Successfully builds, but fails to run

[xadamxk]

I've been working on a project for several weeks now. Once or twice a week I will merge changes into dev, deploy the app (build & start), and continue development. However, the application failed to start recently. Building the application with tsc --sourceMap false --declaration works successfully, but running the application with node ./dist/server.js results in the following error:

$ node ./dist/server.js
2021-11-29T16:09:48.856Z - emerg: Uncaught Rejection stack=TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'report')
    at /project/node_modules/actionhero/dist/classes/process.js:338:47
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Process.fatalError (/project/node_modules/actionhero/dist/classes/process.js:335:20)
    at Process.initialize (/project/node_modules/actionhero/dist/classes/process.js:81:22)
    at async Process.start (/project/node_modules/actionhero/dist/classes/process.js:182:13)
    at async main (/project/dist/server.js:17:5) 
2021-11-29T16:09:48.857Z - crit: Cannot shut down project, not running 
error Command failed with exit code 1.

The only changes I've made since this began to fail was adding new actions, a couple tasks, and an initializer for cors. I've deleted the initializer, but the problem still occurs even after re-cloning the project.

Any help or advice to debug this would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: I wanted to post this so if anyone ran into the issue, the solution would be documented.
The problem relates to the initializer and requires that the initializers folder be deleted. Delete the dist folder, then rebuild and run the application. The dist folder will not remove the initializers folder (containing the rogue initializer) if the folder still exists in the project.

[evantahler]

Nice! looks like you ran into a TS compilation problem and already solved it! For me, this kind of problem is pretty common.

In Actionhero internally, our build command always starts with a rm -rf dist first to help avoid these kinds of shenanigans.

actionhero/package.json

Line 100 in 7861fe9

"build": "rm -rf dist && ./node_modules/.bin/tsc --sourceMap false --declaration",