Angular CLI 1.7.3 Cannot find module '@angular-devkit/build-optimizer'

[devforey]

Versions

<!--
Angular CLI: 1.7.3
Node: 9.8.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 5.2.9
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... platform-server, router

@angular/cdk: 5.2.4
@angular/cli: 1.7.3
@angular/flex-layout: 5.0.0-beta.13
@angular/material: 5.2.4
@schematics/package-update: 0.3.2
typescript: 2.5.3
webpack-node-externals: 1.6.0
webpack: 3.10.0

Repro steps

• npm run build:prod

Observed behavior

Cannot find module '@angular-devkit/build-optimizer' from '/my/project/directory'
Error: Cannot find module '@angular-devkit/build-optimizer' from '/my/project/directory'
    at Function.module.exports [as sync] (/my/project/directory/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:40:15)
    at Object.getCommonConfig (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/webpack-configs/common.js:138:56)
    at NgCliWebpackConfig.buildConfig (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/models/webpack-config.js:33:31)
    at Class.run (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/tasks/build.js:31:92)
    at Class.run (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/commands/build.js:250:40)
    at resolve (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/ember-cli/lib/models/command.js:261:20)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Class.validateAndRun (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/ember-cli/lib/models/command.js:240:12)
    at Promise.resolve.then.then (/my/project/directory/node_modules/@angular/cli/ember-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:140:24)
    at <anonymous>
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! search@0.0.0 build:prod: `ng build --prod`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the search@0.0.0 build:prod 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!     /Users/Mark/.npm/_logs/2018-03-20T12_06_15_012Z-debug.log

Desired behavior

To build prod without error

Mention any other details that might be useful (optional)

My project's package.json

"dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "^5.2.9",
    "@angular/cdk": "^5.2.4",
    "@angular/common": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/compiler": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/core": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/flex-layout": "^5.0.0-beta.13",
    "@angular/forms": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/http": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/material": "^5.2.4",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^5.2.0",
    "@angular/platform-server": "^5.2.9",
    "@angular/router": "^5.2.0",
    "@ngrx/effects": "^4.1.0",
    "@ngrx/store": "^4.1.0",
    "@nguniversal/express-engine": "^5.0.0-beta.6",
    "@nguniversal/module-map-ngfactory-loader": "^5.0.0-beta.6",
    "@ngx-translate/core": "^9.1.1",
    "@ngx-translate/http-loader": "^2.0.1",
    "bodybuilder": "2.2.1",
    "core-js": "^2.4.1",
    "elasticsearch": "^13.3.1",
    "hammerjs": "^2.0.8",
    "intl": "^1.2.5",
    "jsdom": "^11.6.2",
    "jsdom-global": "^3.0.2",
    "libphonenumber-js": "^1.0.24",
    "rxjs": "^5.5.6",
    "ts-loader": "^3.5.0",
    "web-animations-js": "^2.3.1",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.19"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular/cli": "~1.7.3",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^5.2.0",
    "@ngrx/store-devtools": "^4.0.0",
    "@types/googlemaps": "^3.30.0",
    "@types/jasmine": "~2.8.3",
    "@types/node": "~6.0.60",
    "codelyzer": "^4.0.1",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.8.0",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.2.1",
    "karma": "~2.0.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.2.0",
    "karma-cli": "~1.0.1",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^1.2.1",
    "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.0",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "node-sass": "^4.7.2",
    "protractor": "~5.1.2",
    "ts-node": "~4.1.0",
    "tslint": "~5.9.1",
    "typescript": "~2.5.3",
    "webpack": "^3.10.0",
    "webpack-node-externals": "^1.6.0"
  }

[adama357]

NPM was working fine for me, but then it suggested I update npm from 5.6.0 to 5.7.1. I ran "npm i npm", and after that was done, I started getting the above error. (NPM claimed it probably wasn't being caused by npm.)

I then ran "npm update" (as administrator), and now I'm no longer getting this error.

Not sure if this means anything to anyone, but I thought I'd at least log my experience in case it helps someone figure out what's causing this error.

[HugoHeneault]

So I tried to fix it by running

yarn add @angular-devkit/build-optimizer --dev

And it worked. Quite weird.

You could do the same with npm by doing

npm i @angular-devkit/build-optimizer --save-dev

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