ng test fails with "Error in config file!" for new project using linked angular-cli

[harunurhan]

I just created a new project to test something but ng test is failing.

Please provide us with the following information:

OS?

Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

macOS El Capitan

Versions.

Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.26
node: 5.12.0
os: darwin x64
@angular/common: 2.4.4
@angular/compiler: 2.4.4
@angular/core: 2.4.4
@angular/forms: 2.4.4
@angular/http: 2.4.4
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.4
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.4
@angular/router: 3.4.4
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.4

Repro steps.

Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

ng new test-app
cd test-app
ng test

The log given by the failure.

Normally this include a stack trace and some more information.

23 01 2017 11:37:18.541:ERROR [config]: Error in config file!
 { [TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (46,25): Cannot find name 'Promise'. (2304)
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (142,43): Property 'assign' does not exist on type 'ObjectConstructor'. (2339)
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (267,25): Cannot find name 'Promise'. (2304)]
  diagnostics: 
   [ '../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (46,25): Cannot find name \'Promise\'. (2304)',
     '../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (142,43): Property \'assign\' does not exist on type \'ObjectConstructor\'. (2339)',
     '../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (267,25): Cannot find name \'Promise\'. (2304)' ] }
TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (46,25): Cannot find name 'Promise'. (2304)
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (142,43): Property 'assign' does not exist on type 'ObjectConstructor'. (2339)
../angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/plugin.ts (267,25): Cannot find name 'Promise'. (2304)
    at getOutput (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:258:17)
    at /Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:267:16
    at Object.compile (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:403:17)
    at loader (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:289:33)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts] (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:306:14)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module._load.parent [as _load] (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/lib/bootstrap-local.js:69:24)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/packages/@ngtools/webpack/src/index.ts:3:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at loader (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:289:14)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts] (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:306:14)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module._load.parent [as _load] (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/lib/bootstrap-local.js:56:22)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/packages/angular-cli/models/webpack-build-test.js:5:17)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module._load.parent [as _load] (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/lib/bootstrap-local.js:69:24)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/packages/angular-cli/plugins/karma.js:4:30)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module._load.parent [as _load] (/Users/haurhan/ts/angular-cli/lib/bootstrap-local.js:62:22)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at module.exports (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/karma.conf.js:12:7)
    at Object.parseConfig (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/karma/lib/config.js:342:5)
    at new Server (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/karma/lib/server.js:56:20)
    at /Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/angular-cli/tasks/test.js:32:31
    at Class.exports.default.Task.extend.run (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/angular-cli/tasks/test.js:15:16)
    at Class.TestCommand.extend.run (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/angular-cli/commands/test.js:30:25)
    at Class.<anonymous> (/Users/haurhan/ts/cli-test-app/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/command.js:147:17)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)

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[filipesilva]

You should have mentioned you're actually using a linked version of angular-cli btw, this doesn't happen on published versions.

It turns out karma auto-registers ts-node: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma/blob/0bec015ede1c04e4d286c1ed2068c294e517364a/lib/config.js#L29

This messes up our dev setup transpiling. Temporary solution is to rm -rf node_modules/ts-node in the generated project. This in turn will mess up your ng e2e :/

Don't really have a solution for this at the moment. Not terribly important since it's a dev-only issue.

[harunurhan]

Thanks, your solution fixed it for my case since I don't need ng e2e.

Actually I was trying it, at first with my local angular-cli linked, when it failed I tried it on a new project with published @latest angular-cli but apparently forgot to unlink. That's why I didn't mention.

[filipesilva]

Fixed via #4997

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