angular-seed: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\\Documents\\client\tools\tasks\seed\noop'

All of sudden the npm start command started throwing the following exception. Nothing has changed the system environment. Restarted the machine. but no luck.

[15:04:57] Error: Cannot find module '<projectpath>\client\tools\tasks\seed\noop'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (<projectpath>\client\tools\utils\seed\tasks_tools.js:107:34)
    at module.exports (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:34:7)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:273:3)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runStep (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:214:10)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator.start (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:134:8)
    at runNextSet (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:86:16)
[15:04:57] 'serve.dev' errored after 234 ms
[15:04:57] Error in plugin 'run-sequence(noop)'
Message:
    Cannot find module '<projectpath>\client\tools\tasks\seed\noop'
Details:
    code: MODULE_NOT_FOUND
Stack:
Error: Cannot find module '<projectpath>\client\tools\tasks\seed\noop'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Gulp.<anonymous> (<projectpath>\client\tools\utils\seed\tasks_tools.js:107:34)
    at module.exports (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\lib\runTask.js:34:7)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runTask (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:273:3)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator._runStep (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:214:10)
    at Gulp.Orchestrator.start (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\orchestrator\index.js:134:8)
    at runNextSet (<projectpath>\client\node_modules\run-sequence\index.js:86:16)
[15:04:57] 'build.dev' errored after 488 ms
[15:04:57] Error in plugin 'run-sequence(serve.dev)'

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@mgechev , I can re-create this problem quite easily using the current Seed on Windows 8.1 by following the instructions for ‘speeding up the build on Windows’:

run tsc --project tsconfig.json
run npm start

I get the same errors posted by @saikiranmandhala at the beginning of this issue.

The fix is also simple: delete *.js and *.js.map files in the following directories:

. (do NOT delete karma.conf.js, protractor.conf.js, test-main.js, and test-confiig.js)
tools, tools/config, tools/tasks, tools/utils, src/client/app (operators.js and js.map)

Unfortunately, this means that (at least on Windows) the two ways of ‘building the tools’ are broken in the current Seed. npm run gulp build.tools does not currently work for me either due to #1892.

hhubik on Aug 25, 2017

I was having the same problem, the solution that I found was install the dependencies with yarn.

I’m running on a machine with Windows 8!

weslley39 on Oct 3, 2017