Nx: Error building Nest-Applications: Please specify a regular expression as the pattern property on the plugin options.

[ftischler]

Prerequisites

Expected Behavior

Please describe the behavior you are expecting

Current Behavior

Building Nest Applications is not possible any more after upgrade to v8.8.0. It fails with the following error:

An unhandled exception occurred: license-webpack-plugin: Please specify a regular expression as the pattern property on the plugin options.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new application with NestJs: ng generate @nrwl/nest:application test-api
2. Build it with ng build --prod --project test-api
3. Error occurs.

Context

@nrwl/angular : 8.8.0
@nrwl/cli : 8.8.0
@nrwl/cypress : 8.8.0
@nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : Not Found
@nrwl/express : Not Found
@nrwl/jest : 8.8.0
@nrwl/linter : 8.8.0
@nrwl/nest : 8.8.0
@nrwl/next : Not Found
@nrwl/node : 8.8.0
@nrwl/react : Not Found
@nrwl/schematics : Not Found
@nrwl/tao : 8.8.0
@nrwl/web : Not Found
@nrwl/workspace : 8.8.0
typescript : 3.5.3

"@nestjs/common": "6.10.1",
"@nestjs/core": "6.10.1",
"@nestjs/platform-express": "6.10.1",
"@nestjs/platform-socket.io": "6.10.1",
"@nestjs/swagger": "3.1.0",
"@nestjs/websockets": "6.5.3",
"@nestjs/schematics": "6.7.0",
"@nestjs/testing": "6.8.3"

Node.js: v12.10.0

[jon301]

Here is a workaround, only if you don't care about extracting license files.

In your angular.json file, set extractLicenses to false in the production configuration section:

{
  ...
  "build": {
    "configurations": {
      "production": {
        ...
        "extractLicenses": false
        ...
      }
    }
  }
  ...
}

[the-ult]

Same problem occurs with a node project and a --prod build

 "builder": "@nrwl/node:build",

>  NX  Report complete - copy this into the issue template

  @nrwl/angular : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/cli : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/cypress : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/express : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/jest : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/linter : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/nest : Not Found
  @nrwl/next : Not Found
  @nrwl/node : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/react : Not Found
  @nrwl/schematics : Not Found
  @nrwl/tao : 8.8.0
  @nrwl/web : Not Found
  @nrwl/workspace : 8.8.0
  typescript : 3.6.4

❯ ng --version

     _                      _                 ____ _     ___
    / \   _ __   __ _ _   _| | __ _ _ __     / ___| |   |_ _|
   / △ \ | '_ \ / _` | | | | |/ _` | '__|   | |   | |    | |
  / ___ \| | | | (_| | |_| | | (_| | |      | |___| |___ | |
 /_/   \_\_| |_|\__, |\__,_|_|\__,_|_|       \____|_____|___|
                |___/


Angular CLI: 9.0.0-rc.2
Node: 12.9.1
OS: linux x64
Angular: 9.0.0-rc.2
... animations, cli, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... language-service, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.803.14
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.900.0-rc.2
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.900.0-rc.2
@angular-devkit/build-webpack     0.803.14
@angular-devkit/core              8.3.14
@angular-devkit/schematics        8.3.14
@angular/cdk                      8.2.3
@angular/material                 8.2.3
@ngtools/webpack                  9.0.0-rc.2
@schematics/angular               8.3.14
@schematics/update                0.900.0-rc.2
rxjs                              6.5.3
typescript                        3.6.4
webpack                           4.39.2

[mbriggs]

Thank you for your report :) We will fix the schematic soon

[gperdomor]

@brandonroberts @jaysoo I just run create-nx-workspace with angular-nest preset and the issue is still present in the created project... Please reopen this issue

[bradtaniguchi]

I'm still seeing the error after re-installing the lib a couple of times.

The package.json was updated in the PR that closes this issue, but I noticed the following locally after installing 8.8.2:

[brad@brad-pc my-project]$ npm ls license-webpack-plugin
[email protected] /home/brad/Projects/my-project
├─┬ @angular-devkit/[email protected]
│ └── [email protected] 
└─┬ @nrwl/[email protected]
  └── [email protected] 

The lib with @nrwl/node 8.8.2 is still pointing to the old license one. I have no idea how to fix that, but that can't be right :smile:

[brandonroberts]

The fix has landed in master and will go out with the next release