Updated to angular/cli:^1.6.8 - Error during template compile of 'PlatformRef'

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Angular CLI: 1.6.8 (e) Node: 8.9.1 OS: darwin x64 Angular: 5.2.4 … animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms … http, language-service, platform-browser … platform-browser-dynamic, router

@angular/cdk: 5.2.0
@angular/cli: 1.6.8
@angular/material: 5.2.0
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer: 0.0.42
@angular-devkit/core: 0.0.29
@angular-devkit/schematics: 0.0.52
@ngtools/json-schema: 1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack: 1.9.8
@schematics/angular: 0.1.17
typescript-extends: 1.0.1
typescript: 2.4.2
webpack-concat-plugin: 1.4.0
webpack-dev-server: 2.11.1
webpack: 3.10.0

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Observed behavior

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ERROR in Error during template compile of 'PlatformRef'
  Function calls are not supported in decorators but 'ɵmakeDecorator' was called in 'Injectable'
    'Injectable' calls 'ɵmakeDecorator'.

Desired behavior

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[mderoche]

I managed to figure out what was causing this error in my case. (Seems like this could be caused by many things.)

I have an application that uses a library, where I develop both of them, and the library is symlinked to the application. The library would import { ... } from '@angular/core', but was trying to pull @angular/core from the node_modules local to that library instead of the node_modules local to the application.

Adding the Angular modules to the paths in tsconfig.app.json solved the issue. It’ll point all of the Angular imports to the node_modules in the application instead of the node_modules in the library.

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

[rtm]

This error is occurring to me with ^6.0.0 versions.

ERROR in …/@nims/ngutils/lib/collapsible-fieldset/collapsible-fieldset.component.ts(13,2): Error during template compile of ‘CollapsibleFieldsetComponent’ Function calls are not supported in decorators but ‘ɵmakeDecorator’ was called in ‘Component’ ‘Component’ calls ‘ɵmakeDecorator’.