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Meteor UglifyJS error when trying to compile in production


Trying to upload to Galaxy causes the error so I am debugging with the following:

meteor --settings settings-dev.json --production

While minifying app code:
  eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:1545:18: SyntaxError: Unexpected token: punc ())
  at new JS_Parse_Error (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:1545:18)
  at js_error (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:1553:11)
  at croak (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2089:9)
  at token_error (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2097:9)
  at unexpected (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2103:9)
  at expr_atom (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2618:13)
  at maybe_unary (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2792:19)
  at expr_ops (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2827:24)
  at maybe_conditional (eval at <anonymous>
  (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1),
  <anonymous>:2832:20)


  * Many more lines of same kind of stuff*


=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

Which really gives me no starting point as to what's causing the problem. There is a running issue on GitHub but no progress so far.

I tried to dig deeper and did the following in my Terminal

alias uglifyjs=~/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/bin/uglifyjs
find lib client -type f -name \*.js|while read file;do uglifyjs -o /dev/null $file;done

Which comes back with

  Parse error at client/main.js:1,7
  SyntaxError: Unexpected token: string (/imports/startup/client)
  Error
   at new JS_Parse_Error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1545:18)
   at js_error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:1553:11)
   at croak (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2089:9)
   at token_error (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2097:9)
   at unexpected (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2103:9)
   at semicolon (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2123:56)
   at simple_statement (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2314:73)
   at eval (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2183:19)
   at eval (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2136:24)
   at eval (eval at <anonymous> (/Users/sergiy/.meteor/packages/standard-minifier-js/.1.2.1.1ldi2wj++os+web.browser+web.cordova/plugin.minifyStdJS.os/npm/node_modules/meteor/minifier-js/node_modules/uglify-js/tools/node.js:28:1), <anonymous>:2904:23)

My main.js file looks like this:

import '/imports/startup/client';

Still can't figure out what the issue is since that is the syntax Meteor suggests in their docs. Removing the standard-minifier-js packages fixes the problem but that's not the best way to go around it so I was hoping there was a fix!


Solution

  • Turns out there was an issue with an NPM package (ClipboardJS) I was importing in one of my components. Removing it and adding the script to my <head></head> fixed the issue. I'd rather have a minified app with an external src than a non-minified app.