I am using angular 4 along with Webpack and Yarn as a package manager. Started my project using JIT and trying to move to AOT using ngtools/webpack. when trying to build my project using :
yarn build
I get the Error:
ERROR in window is not defined
I have removed all the window references from my project to make sure the error doesn't occur in my project. my conclusion is that it happens in an external module I am loading. Can't tell which though because the error message seems to be broken. Tried including it in all kind of different ways followed mainly by those Questions : Expose jQuery to real Window object with Webpack , https://stackoverflow.com/a/28989476/2823310 but nothing works for me at the moment.
I think that this code:
var globalWindow = {};
globalWindow.$ = globalWindow.jQuery = require("jquery");
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
window: globalWindow
})
is the way towards the solution but it produces more of the same problems :
ERROR in document is not defined
How can I make a global reference to the window object before one actually exists (AOT - ahead of time should not really know a real window object). Is it possible that AOT with angular 4 and webpack isn't mature enough yet ? because there isn't much information about it across the web.
seems really related to this topic : window is not defined using Angular4 + AoT + Webpack2 but it wasn't answered.
package.json:
{
"name": "app",
"version": "0.0.0",
"license": "MIT",
"scripts": {
"clean": "rimraf node_modules doc dist && npm cache clean",
"clean-install": "npm run clean && npm install",
"clean-start": "npm run clean-install && npm start",
"watch": "webpack --watch --progress --profile",
"build": "rimraf dist && webpack --progress --profile --bail",
"server": "webpack-dev-server --inline --progress --port 8080",
"webdriver-update": "webdriver-manager update",
"webdriver-start": "webdriver-manager start",
"lint": "tslint --force \"src/**/*.ts\"",
"e2e": "protractor",
"e2e-live": "protractor --elementExplorer",
"pretest": "npm run lint",
"test": "karma start",
"posttest": "remap-istanbul -i coverage/json/coverage-final.json -o coverage/html -t html",
"test-watch": "karma start --no-single-run --auto-watch",
"ci": "npm run e2e && npm run test",
"docs": "typedoc --options typedoc.json src/app/app.component.ts",
"start": "npm run server",
"start:hmr": "npm run server -- --hot",
"postinstall": "npm run webdriver-update"
},
"dependencies": {
"@angular/animations": "4.2.2",
"@angular/common": "4.2.2",
"@angular/compiler": "4.2.2",
"@angular/compiler-cli": "^4.4.0-RC.0",
"@angular/core": "4.2.2",
"@angular/forms": "4.2.2",
"@angular/http": "4.2.2",
"@angular/platform-browser": "4.2.2",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "4.2.2",
"@angular/platform-server": "^4.4.0-RC.0",
"@angular/router": "4.2.2",
"@ngrx/core": "^1.2.0",
"@ngrx/effects": "^2.0.3",
"@ngrx/store": "^2.2.2",
"@ngtools/webpack": "^1.6.2",
"@ngx-translate/core": "^7.0.0",
"@ngx-translate/http-loader": "0.0.3",
"@types/lodash": "^4.14.65",
"angular2-ui-switch": "git+https://github.com/daominhsangvn/angular2-ui-switch",
"bootstrap": "3.3.7",
"core-js": "^2.4.1",
"expose-loader": "^0.7.3",
"font-awesome": "^4.7.0",
"jquery": "^3.2.1",
"karma-phantomjs-launcher": "^1.0.4",
"ng-select": "^1.0.0-beta.6",
"ng2-toastr": "^4.1.0",
"ngx-bootstrap": "^1.7.1",
"ngx-clipboard": "^8.0.4",
"ngx-color-picker": "^4.0.3",
"opensans-npm-webfont": "^0.0.2",
"reflect-metadata": "^0.1.3",
"rxjs": "^5.0.1",
"script-loader": "^0.7.0",
"zone.js": "^0.8.5"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@angularclass/hmr": "^1.0.1",
"@angularclass/hmr-loader": "^3.0.2",
"@types/jasmine": "^2.5.41",
"@types/node": "^6.0.38",
"@types/selenium-webdriver": "2.53.39",
"angular-router-loader": "^0.6.0",
"angular2-template-loader": "^0.6.0",
"autoprefixer": "^6.3.2",
"awesome-typescript-loader": "^3.1.3",
"codelyzer": "2.0.0",
"copy-webpack-plugin": "^4.0.1",
"css-loader": "^0.28.4",
"extract-text-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.0",
"file-loader": "^0.11.2",
"html-loader": "^0.4.0",
"html-webpack-plugin": "^2.28.0",
"istanbul-instrumenter-loader": "^2.0.0",
"jasmine-core": "^2.3.4",
"jasmine-spec-reporter": "^3.2.0",
"json-loader": "^0.5.4",
"karma": "1.4.1",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "^2.0.0",
"karma-coverage": "^1.0.0",
"karma-jasmine": "^1.0.2",
"karma-mocha-reporter": "^2.0.3",
"karma-remap-istanbul": "0.2.1",
"karma-sourcemap-loader": "^0.3.7",
"karma-webpack": "2.0.2",
"node-sass": "^4.5.0",
"null-loader": "^0.1.1",
"postcss-loader": "^1.1.0",
"protractor": "^4.0.10",
"raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
"remap-istanbul": "^0.6.4",
"resolve-url-loader": "^2.1.0",
"rimraf": "^2.5.1",
"sass-loader": "^6.0.6",
"shelljs": "^0.7.0",
"style-loader": "^0.18.2",
"ts-helpers": "^1.1.1",
"tslint": "^4.3.1",
"tslint-loader": "^3.5.3",
"typedoc": "^0.5.1",
"typescript": "2.3.4",
"url-loader": "^0.5.9",
"webpack": "^3.3.0",
"webpack-dev-server": "^2.5.0"
}
}
tsconfig-aot.json:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "es5",
"module": "es2015",
"moduleResolution": "node",
"sourceMap": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"lib": ["es2015", "dom"],
"noImplicitAny": false,
"suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true,
"allowUnusedLabels": true,
"typeRoots": [
"./node_modules/@types/"
]
},
"files": [
"src/app/app.module.ts",
"src/main.ts"
],
"exclude": [
"node_modules/*",
"aot",
"app/main.ts"
],
"angularCompilerOptions": {
"genDir": "aot",
"skipMetadataEmit" : true
}
}
thanks.
In angular application you need to inject window as it not be understandable inside your component. you can inject it in your constructor by
@Inject(WINDOW) private window: anyentire constructor