building server in universal story - Error: Can't resolve 'ts-loader'

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Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.4.5 node: 8.6.0 os: linux x64 @angular/animations: 4.4.4 @angular/common: 4.4.4 @angular/compiler: 4.4.4 @angular/core: 4.4.4 @angular/forms: 4.4.4 @angular/http: 4.4.4 @angular/platform-browser: 4.4.4 @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.4.4 @angular/platform-server: 4.4.4 @angular/router: 4.4.4 @angular/cli: 1.4.5 @angular/compiler-cli: 4.4.4 @angular/language-service: 4.4.4 typescript: 2.3.4

Repro steps.

1. Follow the universal story to setup existing angular-cli project to universal.
2. Run the command to build the universal server. webpack --config webpack.server.config.js --progress --colors

The log given by the failure.

webpack --config webpack.server.config.js --progress --colors

Hash: eb41d9b8aea4d4f2ca58
Version: webpack 3.6.0 Time: 32ms

ERROR in Entry module not found: Error: Can’t resolve ‘ts-loader’ in <some project> npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 2 npm ERR! poc@0.0.0 webpack:server: webpack --config webpack.server.config.js --progress --colors npm ERR! Exit status 2 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the poc@0.0.0 webpack:server script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/eyal/.npm/_logs/2017-10-11T05_21_36_973Z-debug.log eyal@eyal-ThinkPad-X270:~/poc$ npm i ts-loader npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.2 (node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.2: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})

• ts-loader@2.3.7 added 115 packages in 6.207s

[elpdrc]

I have solved this by doing npm i ts-loader. Just wanted to know if this is the right course of action and/or something in the universal doc is missing.

[MarkPieszak]

@elpdrc @hiepxanh via #8012 Thanks for pointing this one out, I must of overlooked it! 👍