build aot: Error: No module factory available for dependency type: ContextElementDependency

OS?

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.26
node: 6.9.4
os: win32 x64
@angular/common: 2.4.5
@angular/compiler: 2.4.5
@angular/core: 2.4.5
@angular/forms: 2.4.5
@angular/http: 2.4.5
@angular/language-service: 2.4.5
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.5
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.5
@angular/router: 3.2.1
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.5

Repro steps.

Repo: https://github.com/born2net/studioweb

The log given by the failure.

Trying to ng build aot

dump:

$ ng build --aot
 25% building modules 128/230 modules 102 active ...modules\@angular\core\src\metadata.js
An error occured during the build:
Error: No module factory available for dependency type: ContextElementDependency
    at Compilation.addModuleDependencies (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:186:21)
    at Compilation.processModuleDependencies (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:175:8)
    at _this.buildModule.err (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:315:13)
    at building.forEach.cb (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:125:27)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at callback (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:125:13)
    at module.build (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:147:11)
    at ContextModule.<anonymous> (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\ContextModule.js:118:3)
    at ContextModule.result.resolveDependencies (C:\msweb\angular-cli\packages\@ngtools\webpack\src\plugin.ts:195:25)
    at ContextModule.build (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\ContextModule.js:99:7)
    at Compilation.buildModule (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:127:10)
    at factoryCallback (C:\msweb\studioweb\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:304:11)

  

seems the entire stack is from Webpack and no ref to any part of my code

Regards,

Sean

[stefannegele]

I had the issue because i manually installed webpack so i had webpack2.3.1 for a different process in the project and was able to fix it by using webpack~2.2.0. Hope that helps.

[eladcandroid]

@LasTanzen Thanks for the great tip! I just removed webpack from the DevDependencies and it works