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ng serve not working. #2844
Description
Please provide us with the following information:
OS?
macOs Sierra
Versions.
Can't run
ng --version. It's returning error.
Repro steps.
First ng new command was not working. The below error was there.
Cannot find module 'reflect-metadata'.
I then uninstalled angular-cli, Installed 'reflect-metadata' module & then had to install 'port-finder' module too, both globally. After this I cleared npm cache and re-installed 'angular-cli'. Now, 'ng new' command works. Bug ng serve doesn't work. It's again saying 'reflect-metadata' module is missing.
The log given by the failure.
Error when ng serve is used
MacBook-Pro$ ng serve Cannot find module 'reflect-metadata' Error: Cannot find module 'reflect-metadata' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/@ngtools/webpack/src/index.js:5:1) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/models/webpack-build-typescript.js:5:17) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/models/webpack-config.js:2:34) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/tasks/build-webpack.js:6:24) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/commands/build.js:3:23) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Class.module.exports.includedCommands (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/addon/index.js:21:16) at /Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:392:61 at Array.forEach (native) at Project.addonCommands (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:391:15) at Project.eachAddonCommand (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:426:30) at module.exports (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/lookup-command.js:33:13) at CLI.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:34:26) at tryCatch (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:12) at invokeCallback (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:553:13) at publish (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:521:7) at flush (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2373:5) at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:420:9) at process._tickCallback (node.js:349:13)
Error when ng --version is used. I installed angular-cli today. Not able to get the version no. as command is not working.
MacBook-Pro:$ ng --version Cannot find module 'reflect-metadata' Error: Cannot find module 'reflect-metadata' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/@ngtools/webpack/src/index.js:5:1) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/models/webpack-build-typescript.js:5:17) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/models/webpack-config.js:2:34) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/tasks/build-webpack.js:6:24) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/commands/build.js:3:23) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Class.module.exports.includedCommands (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/addon/index.js:21:16) at /Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:392:61 at Array.forEach (native) at Project.addonCommands (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:391:15) at Project.eachAddonCommand (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:426:30) at module.exports (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/lookup-command.js:33:13) at CLI.<anonymous> (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:34:26) at tryCatch (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:12) at invokeCallback (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:553:13) at publish (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:521:7) at flush (/Users/safwan/Code/www/angular/head/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2373:5) at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:420:9) at process._tickCallback (node.js:349:13)
Activity
nadickens commentedon Oct 23, 2016
I had similar errors but I have just got it working.
I was on a low version of node and npm, so installed the latest version of node (6.9.1) and did the following:
npm i -g reflect-metadata
npm i -g portfinder
npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm cache clean
npm install -g angular-cli
ng new project-name
cd project-name
ng serve
And it worked.
esafwan commentedon Oct 24, 2016
ng new.Screenshot from nodejs website given below:
my9074 commentedon Nov 2, 2016
I have same problem, The above solution is useless
isawk commentedon Nov 12, 2016
On mac installing nodejs7 and npm4 using macports solved the problem on my end.
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