Angular app with typescript build error on Azure DevOps pipeline

The following error is happening only during Npm@1 task on the DevOps pipeline. The app builds just fine locally. No errors at all.

Angular CLI version is 8.3.29 and TypeScript version is 3.5.3.

It's executing this custom command:

run build:artifact

and that custom command points to this in package.json:

ng build --configuration=artifact

The error being thrown is:

../node_modules/@types/lodash/common/lang.d.ts:577:74 - error TS2677: A type predicate's type must be assignable to its parameter's type.

Full log from the pipeline:

Starting: Angular Build
==============================================================================
Task         : npm
Description  : Install and publish npm packages, or run an npm command. Supports npmjs.com and authenticated registries like Azure Artifacts.
Version      : 1.202.0
Author       : Microsoft Corporation
Help         : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/package/npm
==============================================================================
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\node\14.15.0\x64\npm.cmd --version"
6.14.8
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\node\14.15.0\x64\npm.cmd config list"
; cli configs
metrics-registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
scope = ""
user-agent = "npm/6.14.8 node/v14.15.0 win32 x64"

; environment configs
prefix = "C:\\npm\\prefix"
userconfig = "D:\\a\\1\\npm\\11507.npmrc"

; globalconfig C:\npm\prefix\etc\npmrc
cache = "C:\\npm\\cache"

; node bin location = C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\node\14.15.0\x64\node.exe
; cwd = D:\a\1\s\client-site-spa
; HOME = C:\Users\VssAdministrator
; "npm config ls -l" to show all defaults.

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /D /S /C "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\node\14.15.0\x64\npm.cmd run build:artifact"

ERROR in ../node_modules/@types/lodash/common/lang.d.ts:577:74 - error TS2677: A type predicate's type must be assignable to its parameter's type.
  Type 'EmptyObjectOf<T>' is not assignable to type 'T'.
    'EmptyObjectOf<T>' is assignable to the constraint of type 'T', but 'T' could be instantiated with a different subtype of constraint 'object'.
      Type 'EmptyObject<T>' is not assignable to type 'T'.
        'EmptyObject<T>' is assignable to the constraint of type 'T', but 'T' could be instantiated with a different subtype of constraint 'object'.

577         isEmpty<T extends object>(value: T | null | undefined): value is EmptyObjectOf<T> | null | undefined;
                                                                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] build:artifact: `ng build --configuration=artifact`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build:artifact 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!     C:\npm\cache\_logs\2022-08-17T15_41_17_869Z-debug.log

> [email protected] build:artifact D:\a\1\s\client-site-spa
> ng build --configuration=artifact

Do you know how to hunt down where this error is being thrown?

When I run the same command [ ng build --configuration=artifact ] manually on my dev box with matching node\npm versions, no error happens:

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After deleting the node_modules folder and package-lock.json file as MikeOne suggested, I was able to get the same error from the pipeline locally... however it still doesn't tell us in what file the error is happening. :|

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There's no indication this error is happening anywhere on my own source code. Would this be an error from lodash itself? I'm using the latest version available as of now

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This seems to be the interface member that the TypeScript compiler is barking about... however, I'm not calling it anywhere on my code.

CodePudding user response：

A recent commit has broken the package. The issue is being tracked on their Github, but in the meantime we could stick to the previous version of @types/lodash which is 4.14.182.