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Cannot find module './models/config'


Updating my Angular 2 CLI project from 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.2 to 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.8 according to instructions:

npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm cache clean
npm install -g angular-cli@webpack    

resulted in this:

jan@linux-zd16:~/src/fm-repos/fm-ui> ng --version
Cannot find module './models/config'
Error: Cannot find module './models/config'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jan/src/fm-repos/fm-ui/node_modules/angular-cli/addon/ng2/index.js:4:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)

Solution

  • When installing Angular CLI, explicitly use the latest version, instead:

    Update global Angular CLI

    rm -rf node_modules dist tmp
    npm uninstall -g angular-cli
    npm cache clean
    npm install -g angular-cli@latest
    

    Update project's Angular CLI

    npm install --save-dev angular-cli@latest
    

    Update project's configuration files

    ng init
    

    and carefully review each difference.