gulp erroring out on Windows during 'bundle:spa-dev' task.

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Current behavior
Unable to run any build commands on Windows. Errors out during gulp task 'bundle:spa-dev'

Expected/desired behavior
Expect a successful build.

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

1. Clone repository
2. npm/yarn install
3. npm run build:spa-dev
4. Error.

Please tell us about your environment:
Windows 10
mintty 2.0.3
node v6.10.3
npm v4.5.0

• Angular version:
  Latest bundled with repo.

[fulls1z3]

@sam-candeocreative there's no task with name bundle:spa-dev. You should use gulp bundle:spa-dev or better npm run build:spa-dev to build the package on client side in dev mode.

[ghost]

@fulls1z3 That is what I put above, is it not?

The gulp task is clearly labeled bundle:spa-dev. The npm run command is build:spa-dev

[ghost]

Console output

$ npm run build:spa-dev

> @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev C:\vhosts\ng
> gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev

[10:23:09] Using gulpfile C:\vhosts\ng\gulpfile.js
[10:23:09] Starting 'clean'...
[10:23:09] Starting 'clean:public'...
[10:23:09] Finished 'clean:public' after 52 ms
[10:23:09] Starting 'clean:server'...
[10:23:09] Finished 'clean:server' after 2.63 ms
[10:23:09] Starting 'clean:temp'...
[10:23:09] Finished 'clean:temp' after 1.05 ms
[10:23:09] Finished 'clean' after 57 ms
[10:23:10] Using gulpfile C:\vhosts\ng\gulpfile.js
[10:23:10] Starting 'build:spa-dev'...
[10:23:10] Starting 'dummy'...
[10:23:10] Finished 'dummy' after 513 μs
[10:23:10] Starting 'bundle:spa-dev'...
[10:23:12] 'bundle:spa-dev' errored after 1.36 s
[10:23:12] Error: The "@angular/compiler-cli" package was not properly installed.
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\vhosts\ngcandeo\node_modules\@ngtools\webpack\src\index.js:14:11)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\vhosts\ng\config\webpack.common.js:12:42)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
[10:23:12] 'build:spa-dev' errored after 1.36 s
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev: `gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev script 'gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the @ng-seed/universal package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs @ng-seed/universal
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls @ng-seed/universal
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-05-10T15_23_12_376Z-debug.log

Log file output:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Users\\-redacted-\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'run',
1 verbose cli   'build:spa-dev' ]
2 info using npm@4.5.0
3 info using node@v6.10.3
4 verbose run-script [ 'prebuild:spa-dev', 'build:spa-dev', 'postbuild:spa-dev' ]
5 info lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~prebuild:spa-dev: @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2
6 silly lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~prebuild:spa-dev: no script for prebuild:spa-dev, continuing
7 info lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2
8 verbose lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: PATH: C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin;C:\vhosts\ng\node_modules\.bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\local\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\bin;C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\xampp\apache\bin;C:\xampp\mysql\bin;C:\xampp\php;C:\Users\Cand-redacted-\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Local\Yarn\.bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\vendor_perl;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\core_perl
10 verbose lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: CWD: C:\vhosts\ng
11 silly lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev' ]
12 silly lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
13 info lifecycle @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2~build:spa-dev: Failed to exec build:spa-dev script
14 verbose stack Error: @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev: `gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev`
14 verbose stack Exit status 1
14 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\lifecycle.js:279:16)
14 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
14 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
14 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\-redacted-\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\spawn.js:40:14)
14 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
14 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
14 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:886:16)
14 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
15 verbose pkgid @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2
16 verbose cwd C:\vhosts\ng
17 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.14393
18 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\-redacted-\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "build:spa-dev"
19 verbose node v6.10.3
20 verbose npm  v4.5.0
21 error code ELIFECYCLE
22 error errno 1
23 error @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev: `gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev`
23 error Exit status 1
24 error Failed at the @ng-seed/universal@0.4.0-beta.2 build:spa-dev script 'gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev'.
24 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
24 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the @ng-seed/universal package,
24 error not with npm itself.
24 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
24 error     gulp clean && gulp build:spa-dev
24 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
24 error     npm bugs @ng-seed/universal
24 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
24 error     npm owner ls @ng-seed/universal
24 error There is likely additional logging output above.
25 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[fulls1z3]

@sam-candeocreative it's ok, we all made typo errors (even once I sent money to a wrong account and lost some hundred bucks 😄).

Well, the error explains itself:

Error: The "@angular/compiler-cli" package was not properly installed.

Did you perform npm/yarn install for dependencies before running the build task? Or, maybe you have @angular installed globally. I think installing/resolving dependencies will solve your problem.

Try this solution, and let me know if it now works.

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@fulls1z3

Yes, hence my confusion.

From my yarn.lock:

"@angular/compiler-cli@~4.1.0":
  version "4.1.1"
  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@angular/compiler-cli/-/compiler-cli-4.1.1.tgz#8cea89ee12129c3f0edb55853e18b37b164f2953"
  dependencies:
    "@angular/tsc-wrapped" "4.1.1"
    minimist "^1.2.0"
    reflect-metadata "^0.1.2"```

[fulls1z3]

Did you try to remove whole node_modules and run yarn?

[ghost]

Just tried this. No luck - same errors. Also tried yarn upgrade @angular/compiler-cli after with no luck.

[ghost]

@fulls1z3 I gave up and resorted to linux subsystem for now. Definitely a bug somewhere with Windows that I can't quite root out right now.

[fulls1z3]

@sam-candeocreative actually I'm using Windows but it's better to have some automated builds for this repo both on travis-ci and appveyor. Also, please let me know about the details on this topic, maybe we'll find out a clue.

[fulls1z3]

@sam-candeocreative I'd like to share an interesting thing with you. I was trying to remove uglifyjs deps from the package, and deleted the entire uglifyjs dir from node_modules followed by the execution of yarn command. The output was exactly as follows:

$ yarn
yarn install v0.23.4
[1/4] Resolving packages...
success Already up-to-date.
Done in 2.02s.

I saw that yarn tends to do not update anything while the package.json was still the same. I made a small change on package.json and it worked like a charm.

$ yarn
yarn install v0.23.4
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
warning fsevents@1.1.1: The platform "win32" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.1.1" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
success Saved lockfile.
Done in 39.76s.

Try changing a version of any dep or adding/removing a dep and then run yarn and then revert the changes on package.json and then run yarn (what a sentence, lol). Also, please let me know about the status.

[ghost]

@fulls1z3 I think you missed yarn upgrade when looking into yarn. yarn upgrade will do what you suggested above, just a little easier. yarn upgrade will rebuild the lockfile that you went through all that effort to invalidate ;)

Anyway, I thought I had tried this yesterday, but maybe I didn't try a general upgrade. It seems to be working fine today :). Of course, after I spent all that effort getting windows linux subsystem up to date.

[fulls1z3]

Well I'm glad that it works now :)