Nest: npm run start:prod => failed on very first try

[ndtuan412]

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Current behavior

npm run start:prod failed on fresh project

Expected behavior

It should run OK.

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

$ npm i -g @nestjs/cli
$ nest new project-name
$ cd project-name
$ npm run start:prod

Opps! Error:

> [email protected] prestart:prod ~/project-name
> rimraf dist && tsc


> [email protected] start:prod ~/project-name
> node dist/main.js

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '~/project-name/dist/main.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:742:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:266:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:596:3)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start:prod: `node dist/main.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start:prod script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     ~/.npm/_logs/2019-01-21T02_30_39_812Z-debug.log

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Environment

Nest version: 5.4.0


For Tooling issues:
- Node version: v10.9.0  
- npm: 6.2.0
- Platform:  Mac

Others:

[nartc]

You need to build it first using tsc

[ndtuan412]

Tried and got same error.

The problem is:
The result after built:

├── src
│   ├── main.js
│   └── main.js.map
└── test
    ├── app.e2e-spec.d.ts
    ├── app.e2e-spec.js
    └── app.e2e-spec.js.map

While command in package.json is "start:prod": "node dist/main.js",

[kamilmysliwiec]

Change your prestart:prod script to the following one:

"prestart:prod": "rimraf dist && npm run build"

[myWsq]

Same wrong

[divinespear]

I got same issue when .ts files outside src and test directory.
It cames normal when I added that files to exclude in tsconfig.build.json.

[rcasari1987]

https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/1317#issuecomment-442156095

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