Component library local development with npm link error: "Please add a @NgModule annotation"

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Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.0.6 node: 6.9.5 os: win32 x64 @angular/common: 4.1.3 @angular/compiler: 4.1.3 @angular/core: 4.1.3 @angular/forms: 4.1.3 @angular/http: 4.1.3 @angular/platform-browser: 4.1.3 @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.1.3 @angular/router: 4.1.3 @angular/cli: 1.0.6 @angular/compiler-cli: 4.1.3

Repro steps.

1. Create an empty angular-cli project
2. Create a new Angular component library with at least one module and one component.
3. Build the component library with ngc -p ./src/tsconfig.lib.json
4. Register the component library running npm link at the /dist folder of the library.
5. From the angular-cli project link to the component library: npm link component-library-package-name
6. Use the component library (import a module and use a component).
7. Start the angular-cli project with ng serve.
8. It compiles but it will fail in the browser with the following error: Unexpected value 'MyModule' imported by the module 'AppModule'. Please add a @NgModule annotation.

The log given by the failure.

Chrome error log:

compiler.es5.js:1540 Uncaught Error: Unexpected value 'MyModule' imported by the module 'AppModule'. Please add a @NgModule annotation.
    at syntaxError (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:29720:34)
    at http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:42674:44
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at CompileMetadataResolver.getNgModuleMetadata (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:42657:49)
    at JitCompiler._loadModules (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:53810:66)
    at JitCompiler._compileModuleAndComponents (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:53769:52)
    at JitCompiler.compileModuleAsync (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:53731:23)
    at PlatformRef_._bootstrapModuleWithZone (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:5731:25)
    at PlatformRef_.bootstrapModule (http://localhost:4200/vendor.bundle.js:5717:21)
    at Object.122 (http://localhost:4200/main.bundle.js:303:124)

Desired functionality.

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[clydin]

Your component library setup looks fine. The app needs some slight adjustment to ensure that the application’s Angular libraries are used and not the library’s development dependencies. This change will essentially mimic the standard behavior of the Angular peer dependencies in the context of a linked library. In src/tsconfig.app.json, add the paths setting as follows:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    // ...
    "paths": {
      "@angular/*": [
        "../node_modules/@angular/*"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[DooMMasteR]

I have the same issue, but only in development, the result of the production compile run works just fine. "paths": { "@angular/*": ["../node_modules/@angular/*"] } is already set up in my tsconfig.app.json but in development I still get an @NgModule annotation error.

@angular/cli: 1.4.3
node: 6.11.3
os: linux x64
@angular/animations: 4.4.3
@angular/common: 4.4.3
@angular/compiler: 4.4.3
@angular/core: 4.4.3
@angular/forms: 4.4.3
@angular/http: 4.4.3
@angular/platform-browser: 4.4.3
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.4.3
@angular/router: 4.4.3
@angular/cli: 1.4.3
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.4.3
@ngtools/webpack: 1.7.1
typescript: 2.3.4