Production build fails - ERROR in TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined

[garethgd]

I've encountered a fair few errors when trying to create a production build. This seems to be the one that won't go away for me and I'm pretty stuck as it is. Deploying locally via ng-serve works fine however ng-build is not. Any help would be very appreciated. I'm thinking that there is a version mismatch between my angular packages.

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Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.4
node: 7.0.0
os: win32 x64
@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.4
@angular/common: 2.4.7
@angular/compiler: 2.4.7
@angular/core: 2.4.7
@angular/forms: 2.4.7
@angular/http: 2.4.7
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.7
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.7
@angular/router: 3.4.7
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.0.0-rc.5
@ngtools/webpack: 1.2.14

Repro steps.

ng build -prod

The log given by the failure.

ERROR in TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined

• suppress-entry-chunks-webpack-plugin.js:40 filterFn
  [Angular_whiskey]/[@angular]/cli/plugins/suppress-entry-chunks-webpack-plugin.js:40:91

• Array.filter

• suppress-entry-chunks-webpack-plugin.js:42 Compilation.compilation.plugin
  [Angular_whiskey]/[@angular]/cli/plugins/suppress-entry-chunks-webpack-plugin.js:42:59

• Tapable.js:208 Compilation.applyPluginsAsyncWaterfall
  [Angular_whiskey]/[tapable]/lib/Tapable.js:208:13

• util.js:16 Compilation.tryCatcher
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/util.js:16:23

• index.js:642
  [Angular_whiskey]/[html-webpack-plugin]/index.js:642:12

• index.js:152
  [Angular_whiskey]/[html-webpack-plugin]/index.js:152:16

• util.js:16 tryCatcher
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/util.js:16:23

• promise.js:512 Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/promise.js:512:31

• promise.js:569 Promise._settlePromise
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/promise.js:569:18

• promise.js:614 Promise._settlePromise0
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/promise.js:614:10

• promise.js:693 Promise._settlePromises
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/promise.js:693:18

• async.js:133 Async._drainQueue
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/async.js:133:16

• async.js:143 Async._drainQueues
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/async.js:143:10

• async.js:17 Immediate.Async.drainQueues
  [Angular_whiskey]/[bluebird]/js/release/async.js:17:14

Desired functionality.

Trying to create a production build to deploy to heroku.

Mention any other details that might be useful.

package.json

{
"name": "angular-whiskey",
"version": "0.0.0",
"license": "MIT",
"angular-cli": {},
"scripts": {
"start": "node server.js",
"lint": "tslint "src/**/*.ts"",
"test": "ng test",
"pree2e": "webdriver-manager update",
"e2e": "protractor",
"postinstall": "ng build --aot -prod"
},
"private": true,
"engines": {
"node": "7.0.0",
"npm": "4.4.1"
},
"dependencies": {
"@angular/cli": "^1.0.0-rc.2",
"@angular/common": "2.4.7",
"@angular/compiler": "2.4.7",
"@angular/core": "2.4.7",
"@angular/forms": "2.4.7",
"@angular/http": "2.4.7",
"@angular/platform-browser": "2.4.7",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "2.4.7",
"@angular/router": "3.4.7",
"@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap": "^1.0.0-alpha.20",
"@ngtools/webpack": "^1.2.4",
"@types/core-js": "^0.9.37",
"@types/jasmine": "^2.5.38",
"@types/node": "^6.0.65",
"angularfire2": "^2.0.0-beta.7-pre",
"auth0-lock": "^10.13.0",
"bootstrap": "^3.3.7",
"core-js": "^2.4.1",
"express": "^4.15.2",
"firebase": "^3.7.1",
"ng2-bootstrap": "^1.4.0",
"rxjs": "5.0.0-beta.12",
"ts-helpers": "^1.1.1",
"typescript": "2.2.1",
"zone.js": "^0.6.23"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@angular/cli": "^1.0.0-rc.4",
"@angular/compiler-cli": "4.0.0-rc.5",
"@types/core-js": "^0.9.34",
"@types/jasmine": "^2.2.30",
"@types/node": "^6.0.42",
"codelyzer": "1.0.0-beta.1",
"jasmine-core": "2.4.1",
"jasmine-spec-reporter": "2.5.0",
"karma": "1.2.0",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "^2.0.0",
"karma-cli": "^1.0.1",
"karma-jasmine": "^1.0.2",
"karma-remap-istanbul": "^0.2.1",
"node-sass": "^3.10.1",
"protractor": "4.0.9",
"raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
"sass-loader": "^4.0.2",
"ts-node": "1.2.1",
"tslint": "3.13.0",
"typescript": "~2.0.3",
"webdriver-manager": "10.2.5"
}
}

[filipesilva]

That's an odd error.... can you show me your index.html maybe? We have a bit of logic that checks it on a webpack plugin and it might be bugging out. Do you maybe have a script tag without a src attribute?

Also can you try making a repro that I could have a look at? If it's something in your setup, it might be enough to upload everything but your src folder (or maybe with the src folder of a brand new project).

[thojo]

I had the same Problem on Windows but also no vendor.bundle.js was generated (just like with option --no-vendor-chunk).
For me the cause was a symlink. When executing ng build --prod from D:\symlink\project (where D:\symlink Points to D:\directory) I got this error. Executing from D:\directory\project (no symlink in path) the error "TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined" is gone and a vendor.bundle.js file is generated again.

[swaheed2]

I had the same exact error on windows with running ng build --prod. I changed to an admin cmd and the problem went away.

[apspot]

Thanks @thojo & @swaheed2 ! Without symlink and with admin cmd the deploy went smoothly :)

[jaynzr]

Encountered the same error on Windows and can confirm that moving the project out of directory junction fixed the issue.

[filipesilva]

Fixed by #6403 then.

[benjaminrau]

@filipesilva Should the fix also apply to the scenario mentioned by @swaheed2 ?
ive updated cli to 1.2.1 but still i cant run ng serve --prod from a bat file on Windows but rather need to start and admin cmd.

[filipesilva]

@benjaminrau there's nothing in the CLI that requires admin permissions.

[mdkiefer]

Changing this:

const filterFn = (tag) => !(tag.tagName === 'script' && tag.attributes.src.match(/\.css$/)); 

to:

const filterFn = (tag) => !(tag.tagName === 'script' && tag.attributes != null && tag.attributes.src != null && tag.attributes.src.match(/\.css$/)); 

fixes the problem.

[thepian]

Doesn't seem to be fixed

[front-end-developer]

this frustration thing, Angular 5, I get the same error, I spent days on this, and ng build --prod is not working at all.

I even upgraded angular to angular 6 and the error is still there.

I expected Angular 5/6 to be an improvement not a nightmare to put you off angular.

[front-end-developer]

I fixed it by changing the typescript version.