Minification problem? ("angular is not defined" via grunt serve:dist)

[brianfeister]

First off - this project is incredible, thank you so much!!!

Second, I just scaffolded out a new app, made zero changes to it, ran grunt serve:dist and the project builds but when it opens in Chrome throws an angular is not defined error from app.js because {hash}.vendor.js is empty. It seems like

/client/index.html:

    <!-- build:js({client}) app/vendor.js -->
      <!-- bower:js -->
      [...]
      <script src="bower_components/angular-ui-router/release/angular-ui-router.js"></script>
      <!-- endbower -->

    <!-- endbuild -->

is failing to inject prior to the concat and minify tasks for the grunt serve:dist build. What's confusing about this for me, is that it works fine with grunt serve (e.g. the dev build).

Any ideas where I might poke to find a fix?

[brianfeister]

@DaftMonk - one thing I was wondering if there might be a conflict related to <!-- build:js({client}) app/vendor.js --> and <!-- build:js({.tmp,client}) app/app.js --> ... is it OK for the build:js parameter not to be unique?

[mrzepinski]

@brianfeister I have the same problem. I am trying to figure out what is going on.

[mrzepinski]

@brianfeister

In client/index.html, change line 47 from:

<!-- build:js({client}) app/vendor.js -->

to:

<!-- build:js(client) app/vendor.js -->

No braces.

• Note: Line 47 on a new project

Thanks for @kingcody

[kingcody]

#495 should fix this.

[kingcody]

@brianfeister, @mrzepinski the master branch has been update to include the fix.

[brianfeister]

Thanks @kingcody! 👍