Error: No module factory available for dependency type: ContextElementDependency

[peterpeterparker]

[X] I want to submit a bug

Behavior

When I serve the project, I face the error "Error: No module factory available for dependency type: ContextElementDependency"

How to reproduce the problem

 git clone https://github.com/angular/universal-starter
 cd universal-starter
 npm install
 npm run start

Stacktrace

ng serve

** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost: 4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/ **
13% building modules 29/35 modules 6 active …ter/node_modules/html-entities/index.js✖ ｢wdm｣: Error: No module factory available for dependency type: ContextElementDependency
at addDependency (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:407:12)
at iterationOfArrayCallback (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:88:3)
at addDependenciesBlock (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:423:5)
at iterationOfArrayCallback (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:88:3)
at addDependenciesBlock (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:426:5)
at Compilation.processModuleDependencies (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:434:4)
at afterBuild (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:556:15)
at buildModule.err (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:600:11)
at callback (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:358:35)
at module.build.error (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:394:12)
at resolveDependencies (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/ContextModule.js:233:4)
at ContextModule.result.resolveDependencies (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/me/@ngtools/webpack/src/angular_compiler_plugin.js:476:25)
at ContextModule.build (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/ContextModule.js:158:8)
at Compilation.buildModule (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:362:10)
at factory.create (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:583:14)
at hooks.afterResolve.callAsync (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/node_modules/webpack/lib/ContextModuleFactory.js:150:16)
/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/neo-async/async.js:14
throw new Error('Callback was already called.');
^

Error: Callback was already called.
at throwError (/Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/neo-async/async.js:14:11)
at /Users/me/Documents/projects/lab/universal-starter/node_modules/neo-async/async.js:2805:7
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:176:11)

Side note

Look like this problem was already noticed and discussed once in PR #574

When I run npm ls webpack I get

├─┬ angular-devkit/build-angular@0.6.0
│ └── webpack@4.6.0
└── webpack@4.7.0

I tried to install then explicitly webpack@4.6.0 but it didn't solve the issue

Global version

Node v9.11.1
Npm v5.8.0
Angular CLI: v6.0.0

[peterpeterparker]

Not sure but looks like the solution is to remove webpack, at least I didn't faced the error afterwards, therefore I close my issue

 npm remove webpack --save
 rm -r node_modules
 rm package-lock.json
 npm install

[AnthonyNahas]

@peterpeterparker thank you man! I've got the same error after updating angular to v6 and webpack to v4! 👍

[peterpeterparker]

The webpack dependency has been now removed in this project too with #589

[LawzPopiel]

@PeterParker - This fix worked for me. Currently on Angular 5.2.7 and needed to upgade cli to 1.6. Thank you very much !

[PeterParker]

@LawzPopiel -- I think that message was meant for @peterpeterparker ... :P

[peterpeterparker]

hahaha Hi @PeterParker, it's Peterpeterparker 😜
thx for mentioning me

[PeterParker]

We meet again!

No worries. :)

[venkatinsaditya]

Exactly I don't know the issue but the build issue gone with the following steps. Thank you peterpeterparker

npm remove webpack --save
rm -r node_modules
rm package-lock.json
npm install

[karimessouabni]

worked for me thank you