angular-cli: Can't serve due to uglifyjs-webpack-plugin 1.1.7 release

Versions

Angular CLI: 1.6.5
Node: 8.7.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 5.2.1
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

@angular/cdk: 2.0.0-beta.12
@angular/cli: 1.6.5
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer: 0.0.41
@angular-devkit/core: 0.0.28
@angular-devkit/schematics: 0.0.51
@ngtools/json-schema: 1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack: 1.9.5
@schematics/angular: 0.1.16
typescript: 2.5.3
webpack: 3.10.0

Repro steps

ng new project
ng serve
npm run start - does the same thing

Observed behavior

> npm run start

> client1@0.0.0 start /u/admosity/git/_personal/lerna-repo/packages/client1
> ng serve

Cannot find module 'uglifyjs-webpack-plugin'
Error: Cannot find module 'uglifyjs-webpack-plugin'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:527:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:476:23)
    at Module.require (module.js:568:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/u/admosity/git/_personal/lerna-repo/packages/client1/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/webpack-configs/production.js:13:24)
    at Module._compile (module.js:624:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:635:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:545:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:508:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:500:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:568:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/u/admosity/git/_personal/lerna-repo/packages/client1/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/webpack-configs/index.js:9:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:624:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:635:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:545:32)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! client1@0.0.0 start: `ng serve`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the client1@0.0.0 start 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!     /u/admosity/.npm/_logs/2018-01-29T19_50_52_816Z-debug.log

Desired behavior

Project should run

Mention any other details that might be useful (optional)

webpack-contrib/uglifyjs-webpack-plugin#217

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 27
Comments: 22 (3 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to filipesilva/angular-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago
fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to filipesilva/angular-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago
fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to angular/angular-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago
fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to angular/angular-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago
fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to angular/angular-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago
fix(@angular/cli): update uglifyjs-webpack-plugin to 1.1.8 See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9427#issuecomment-361383935 for context. Supersedes #9429 — committed to d2clouds/speedray-cli by filipesilva 6 years ago

Most upvoted comments

After escalation and investigation, the webpack-contrib team released a new version 1.1.8 with everything proper in it. I’m going to close this issue as fixed, but we’ll look into fixing our dependency versions (and why it wasn’t fixed inthe first place). Thanks for your patience.

+21

hansl on Jan 29, 2018

@seekheart is correct, in the cli package json it’s pulling in “uglifyjs-webpack-plugin”: “^1.1.5”, and the issue is with this package’s recent 1.1.7 release.

as a temporary workaround, npm i --save-dev uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.6 in the local project does seem to fix the issue. Not the best solution, but it got ng serve to work.

+20

EricWafford on Jan 29, 2018

Hi all,

uglifyjs-webpack-plugin has release a 1.1.8 version that should fix this problem.

You can force your local install to use this version by following these steps:

npm install uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.8 --save
npm uninstall uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.8 --save

By installing and uninstalling a specific version you will update your local npm cache to resolve matching ranges to that version.

I’d like to remind everyone that you only have reproducible installs if you use a lockfile. Both NPM v5+ and Yarn support lockfiles. If your CI works one day but not the next and you did not change your code or package.json, it is likely because one of your dependencies had a bad release and you did not have a lockfile.

It is your responsibility as a library consumer to use lockfiles. No one wants to do a release with bugs but it sometimes happens, and the best we can do is to fix it as fast as possible with a new release. When you have a couple of thousand total dependencies it is only a matter of time until one of them has a bad release.

+17

filipesilva on Jan 29, 2018

Webpack published an empty uglifyjs-webpack-plugin. I contacted them and they’re looking at it. Thanks for your patience.

+14

hansl on Jan 29, 2018

Confirm npm i --save-dev uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.6 temporarly fixes the issue

+11

kikar on Jan 29, 2018

@jlozoya just run ng new app_name they downgraded their webpack. Works for me now.

carlospliego on Jan 29, 2018

Latest install is using uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.7, specifying uglifyjs-webpack-plugin@1.1.6 in package.json solved the issue for me.

Eonfow on Jan 29, 2018

Same issue on 1.6.6, it was working fine earlier.

tanwarsatya on Jan 29, 2018

Same issue. angular-cli@1.6.6

sgomanf on Jan 29, 2018

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48509026/cant-run-new-angular-cli-project/48509222#48509222

Just the question not a resolution

gitDylanHub on Jan 29, 2018