Cyclic dependency with more than one Angular route

I am working on an Angular 6.0.7 application with Webpack 4.15.1. The application runs great when using the webpack-dev-server, but once I try to build it using production mode, it fails at the HtmlWebpackPlugin emitting stage.

It must have something to do with HtmlWebpackPlugin because if I remove the plugin then the javascript files generate without a problem. It may have to do with the number of generated chunks.

This did not happen until I added two new routes to my application. Once I remove any two routes, the application compiles fine. Here is the error:

> webpack --config webpack/webpack.production.config.js --progress

clean-webpack-plugin: C:\example\WiFi-Setup\bin has been removed.
 95% emitting HtmlWebpackPluginUnhandled rejection Error: Cyclic dependency
    at visit (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\node_modules\toposort\index.js:35:13)
    at visit (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\node_modules\toposort\index.js:53:9)
    at visit (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\node_modules\toposort\index.js:53:9)
    at Function.toposort [as array] (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\node_modules\toposort\index.js:22:22)
    at Object.module.exports.dependency (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\lib\chunksorter.js:50:35)
    at HtmlWebpackPlugin.sortChunks (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\index.js:364:35)
    at C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\html-webpack-plugin\index.js:113:21
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:12:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at Compiler.emitAssets (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:364:19)
    at onCompiled (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:231:9)
    at hooks.afterCompile.callAsync.err (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:553:14)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:15:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at compilation.seal.err (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compiler.js:550:30)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:9:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at hooks.optimizeAssets.callAsync.err (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:1283:35)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:9:1)
    at AsyncSeriesHook.lazyCompileHook [as _callAsync] (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\Hook.js:35:21)
    at hooks.optimizeChunkAssets.callAsync.err (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\webpack\lib\Compilation.js:1274:32)
    at _err0 (eval at create (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\tapable\lib\HookCodeFactory.js:24:12), <anonymous>:16:1)
    at C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\uglifyjs-webpack-plugin\dist\index.js:282:11
    at step (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\uglifyjs-webpack-plugin\dist\uglify\index.js:90:11)
    at done (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\uglifyjs-webpack-plugin\dist\uglify\index.js:99:22)
    at tryCatcher (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:512:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:569:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:614:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:693:18)
    at Promise._fulfill (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:638:18)
    at Promise._resolveCallback (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:432:57)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:524:17)
    at Promise._settlePromise (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:569:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:614:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (C:\example\WiFi-Setup\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:693:18)

I tried to create a small runnable example but could not replicate the issue. Here is the repository when it compiles and when it does not. The relevant commit after which this issue appeared is found here.

Thanks for any suggestions. I've been debugging this all day.

回答1:

I came across the same issue some days ago. I found 3 possible fixes.

Reset chunksSortMode

plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
        chunksSortMode: 'none'
    })
]

Update html-webpack-plugin
- npm i --save-dev html-webpack-plugin@next
- In the latest version they removed toposort (the lib that causing the error)
Fix circular dependencies
- Install circular-dependency-plugin
- Run webpack without html-webpack-plugin
- Try to fix if possible, the circular dependencies that the plugin reports

Also I realised that the latest version of mocha-webpack has the same issue due to toposort in that case the only solution for me was to downgrade webpack@3

回答2:

The problem was apparently caused by html-webpack-plugin getting into some kind of loop with chunksSortMode: 'dependency', so instead I sorted manually as so:

chunks: ['polyfills', 'vendor', 'main'],
chunksSortMode: 'manual'