Failed to build react app from scratch: Failed to minify the bundle. Error: static/js/main.a07f295c.chunk.js from Terser

Is this a bug report?

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• failed to minify
• Failed to minify the bundle. Error: static/js/main.a07f295c.chunk.js from Terser
• TypeError: Cannot read property ‘minify’ of undefined
• at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:301:16)

Environment

Environment Info:

System: OS: Linux 4.4 Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus) CPU: x64 Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Binaries: Node: 10.15.1 - /usr/bin/node npm: 6.7.0 - /usr/bin/npm npmPackages: react: ^16.7.0 => 16.7.0 react-dom: ^16.7.0 => 16.7.0 react-scripts: 2.1.3 => 2.1.3 npmGlobalPackages: create-react-app: 2.1.3

Steps to Reproduce

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get -y -q update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y python build-essential
sudo npm install -g npm@latest
sudo npm install create-react-app

1. npx create-react-app my-app
2. cd my-app
3. npm run build

Expected Behavior

Successful build.

Actual Behavior

Failed to compile.
Failed to minify the bundle. Error: static/js/main.a07f295c.chunk.js from Terser
TypeError: Cannot read property 'minify' of undefined
    at compiler.run (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/react-scripts/scripts/build.js:169:23)
    at finalCallback (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:210:39)
    at hooks.done.callAsync.err (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:226:13)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:32:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:154:20)
    at onCompiled (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:224:21)
    at hooks.afterCompile.callAsync.err (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:553:14)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:32:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:154:20)
    at compilation.seal.err (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:550:30)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:32:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:154:20)
    at hooks.optimizeAssets.callAsync.err (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:1295:35)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:32:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:154:20)
    at hooks.optimizeChunkAssets.callAsync.err (/home/vagrant/my-app/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:1286:32)
Read more here: http://bit.ly/CRA-build-minify

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! my-app@0.1.0 build: `react-scripts build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the my-app@0.1.0 build 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/vagrant/.npm/_logs/2019-02-02T20_14_07_987Z-debug.log

Error in log file

13 verbose stack Error: my-app@0.1.0 build: `react-scripts build`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:301:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:189:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)

Output of running npx create-react-app my-app

npm WARN deprecated circular-json@0.3.3: CircularJSON is in maintenance only, flatted is its successor.
npm WARN deprecated kleur@2.0.2: Please upgrade to kleur@3 or migrate to 'ansi-colors' if you prefer the old syntax. Visit <https://github.com/lukeed/kleur/releases/tag/v3.0.0\> for migration path(s).
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

[VassilisPallas]

Well, it seems that terser is the reason. Try to install npm install terser@3.14.1 --save-dev. The problem is being explained in this issue #6334

[erwanriou]

@noircir

ok i fix how to do it. We have to change the script just for this case:

` “heroku-postbuild”: “NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false npm install --prefix client && npm install terser@3.14.1 --prefix client && npm run build --prefix client”

`

` Running heroku-postbuild

   > archsplace@1.0.0 heroku-postbuild /tmp/build_e3190506ce04ec098fd91e520951f690
   > NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION=false npm install --prefix client && npm install terser@3.14.1 --prefix client && npm run build --prefix client
   
   added 1881 packages from 783 contributors and audited 36953 packages in 71.252s
   found 0 vulnerabilities
   
   + terser@3.14.1
   updated 1 package and audited 36959 packages in 18.136s
   found 0 vulnerabilities
   
   
   > client@0.1.0 build /tmp/build_e3190506ce04ec098fd91e520951f690/client
   > react-scripts build
   
   Creating an optimized production build...
   Compiled with warnings.`