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"Unexpected token import" error with Angular4 + Universal + ng-bootstrap – SEO

So I upgraded to angular 4+ just so that I can leverage the universal package for server side rendering for SEO purposes. I implemented that in my existing angular 2+ project by upgrading it to angular 4+ and did all the necessary configuration from https://github.com/evertonrobertoauler/cli-universal-demo/commit/a2610286bd3db5d4f4cce4318d7c220c11963eb6.

There is only one difference I am using ng-bootstrap https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/home (v1.0.0-alpha.22). But when I run the node server using npm run start-u-dev I get this error for import keyword in ng-bootstrap.

[email protected] start-u-dev /Users/giric/Projects/apnaDoctor/webapp/appUI  
ts-node src/server.ts  

/appUI/node_modules/@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap/accordion/accordion.module.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';  
                                                              ^^^^^^  
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import  
    at createScript (vm.js:53:10)  
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:95:10)  
    at Module._compile (module.js:543:28)  
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)  
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)  
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)  
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)  
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)  
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)  
    at Object.<anonymous> (/appUI/dist/ngfactory/src/app/app.server.module.ngfa
ctory.ts:18:1)  
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)  
    at Module.m._compile (/appUI/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:406:23)  
    at Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)  
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts]
(/webapp/appUI/node_mod
ules/ts-node/src/index.ts:409:12)  
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)  

pm ERR! Darwin 16.6.0  
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "start-u-dev"  
npm ERR! node v7.7.4  
npm ERR! npm  v4.1.2  
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE  
npm ERR! [email protected] start-u-dev: `ts-node src/server.ts`  
npm ERR! Exit status 1  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start-u-dev script 'ts-node src/server.ts'.  
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.  
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the app-ui package,  
npm ERR! not with npm itself.  
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:  
npm ERR!     ts-node src/server.ts  
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:  
npm ERR!     npm bugs app-ui  
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:  
npm ERR!     npm owner ls app-ui  
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.  

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:

This is what my package.json looks like

{  
  "name": "app-ui",  
  "version": "0.0.0",  
  "license": "MIT",  
  "scripts": {  
    "ng": "ng",  
    "start": "ng serve",  
    "build": "ng build",  
    "test": "ng test",
    "lint": "ng lint",
    "e2e": "ng e2e",
    "prestart": "npm install",
    "postinstall": "bower install",
    "prestart-u-dev": "npm install && ng build && ngc",
    "start-u-dev": "ts-node src/server.ts",
    "prestart-u-prod": "npm install && ng build --prod && ngc",
    "start-u-prod": "ts-node src/server.ts"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/cli": "^1.0.0-rc.1",
    "@angular/common": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/core": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/forms": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/http": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-server": "^4.0.1",
    "@angular/router": "^4.0.1",
    "@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap": "^1.0.0-alpha.22",
    "angular2-toaster": "^3.0.1",
    "core-js": "^2.4.1",
    "ng2-webstorage": "^1.5.1",
    "rxjs": "^5.1.0",
    "rxjs-es": "^5.0.0-beta.12",
    "typescript": "^2.2.2",
    "ui-router-ng2": "^1.0.0-beta.4",
    "zone.js": "^0.7.6"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/jasmine": "2.5.38",
    "@types/node": "~6.0.60",
    "codelyzer": "~2.0.0",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.5.2",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~3.2.0",
    "karma": "~1.4.1",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.0.0",
    "karma-cli": "~1.0.1",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^0.2.0",
    "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.0",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "node-sass": "^4.5.0",
    "protractor": "~5.1.0",
    "raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
    "sass-loader": "^6.0.3",
    "ts-node": "~2.0.0",
    "tslint": "~4.4.2"
  }
}

Update:
Earlier i removed angular2-toaster, but then i added it again just to make sure it wasn’t just toaster module that is throwing the same error. Turns out, both angular2-toaster and ng-bootstrap threw the same error.

Update 2:
When I run the server using ng server, it works fine, no issues with using ng-bootstrap and angular2-toaster with angular 4+

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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3

Answers


  1. 0

    It is clearly a build issue – you don’t seem to have a proper transpilation setup for your server-side code. Please note that ng-bootstrap (as any other Angular 2.x+ library!) is shipping code in the following manner:

    • unbundled ES2015 code (with imports)
    • UMD-bundled ES5 code (without imports)

    If you want to run ng-bootstrap on the server you’ve got 2 choices: either setup proper transpilation pipeline and used unbundled code or import from a bundle (located in bundles folder).

    If you decide to go with a ES5 bundle approach you should be importing from @ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap/dist/ng-bootstrap instead of just @ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap). But to be clear I wouldn’t recommend it as you would have to have different imports in your server-side and client-side code.

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  2. 0

    I think you can create two module. One is for browser is imported ng-bootstrap, one is for server is not imported ng-bootstrap. I think you have to create one more module common to share component, service for browser module and server module. Modal doesn’t render by server to SEO.

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  3. 0

    For those trying to understand what the solution is, you basically want to use and whitelist angular2-toaster and other modules giving this issue.

    1. if using angular-cli, use ng eject to create a webpack.config.js

    2. install the webpack-node-externals dependency via npm install and add the following lines in the webpack.config.js file

      const nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals');

module.exports = {
  ...
  target: 'node',
  externals: [nodeExternals({
    whitelist: [
      /^@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap/,
      /^angular2-toaster/,
    ]
  })],
  ...
}
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