Error: You must pass in a NgModule or NgModuleFactory to be bootstrapped

[shaklin-box8]

🐞 Bug report

What modules are related to this issue?

• aspnetcore-engine
• builders
• common
• express-engine
• hapi-engine

Is this a regression?

Yes, the previous version in which this bug was not present was: ....

Version 8

Description

A clear and concise description of the problem...

The local build and server build works ie. compiles fine, but when i run node dist/server.js i get the following error

Error: You must pass in a NgModule or NgModuleFactory to be bootstrapped
    at View.engine (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:79769:23)
    at View.render (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:17442:8)
    at tryRender (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:13478:10)
    at Function.render (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:13430:3)
    at /Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:200397:35
    at new ZoneAwarePromise (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:1394:29)
    at AppController.<anonymous> (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:200396:39)
    at step (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:200129:23)
    at Object.next (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:200110:53)
    at /Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:200104:71

So initially i browsed for a few post and figured that i need to replace AppServerModuleNgFactory with AppServerModule

and then i started getting the following error.

Error: No NgModule metadata found for 'AppServerModule'.
    at NgModuleResolver.resolve (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:114898:23)
    at CompileMetadataResolver.getNgModuleMetadata (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:114008:45)
    at JitCompiler._loadModules (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:119838:53)
    at JitCompiler._compileModuleAndComponents (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:119821:36)
    at JitCompiler.compileModuleAsync (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:119781:37)
    at CompilerImpl.compileModuleAsync (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:180482:31)
    at CommonEngine.<anonymous> (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:90346:58)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:137474:71
    at new ZoneAwarePromise (/Users/shaklin/Documents/<project>/dist/server.js:1394:29)

I had updated from version 8 to 12. I also tried running ng update @nguniversal/express-engine but that didn't yield any output.

any clues on how to fix would be great.

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Unable to reproduce

🔥 Exception or Error

🌍 Your Environment

Angular CLI: 12.0.2
Node: 14.17.0
Package Manager: npm 6.14.13
OS: darwin x64

Angular: 12.0.2
... animations, cdk, cli, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core
... forms, language-service, material, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, platform-server, router

Package                                    Version
--------------------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect                  0.1200.2
@angular-devkit/build-angular              12.0.2
@angular-devkit/core                       12.0.4
@angular-devkit/schematics                 12.0.2
@angular/fire                              6.1.5
@nguniversal/express-engine                12.0.1
@nguniversal/module-map-ngfactory-loader   8.2.6
@schematics/angular                        12.0.2
rxjs                                       6.6.7
typescript                                 4.2.4
webpack                                    5.36.2

[alan-agius4]

Can you run the following;

ng update @nguniversal/express-engine@10
ng update @nguniversal/express-engine@latest

Typically it's not recommended to update multiply major versions at once.

[shaklin-box8]

@alan-agius4 I had updated one version at a time, and tried running both commands didn't yield any changes

[alan-agius4]

In that case please share your server.ts?

[shaklin-box8]

@alan-agius4 i would love to share but the whole server.ts is broken into multiple files across multiple controllers, can you let me know what exactly is that you are looking for so that i could share the specifics.

[shaklin-box8]

Can you run the following;

ng update @nguniversal/express-engine@10
ng update @nguniversal/express-engine@latest

Typically it's not recommended to update multiply major versions at once.

Also was curious to know what is that we were expecting from this update commands

[shaklin-box8]

ng add @nguniversal/express-engine --project=project_name Fixed the issue.

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