[Blocked by 5562] SSR in spartacus installation not working from schematics

[hackergil]

Our spartacus installation script is not installing spartacus with SSR correctly

• The manual steps are outdated
• The schematics fail with the following:

Installing packages... ✅️ Added '@angular/platform-server' into dependencies ✅️ Added '@nguniversal/express-engine' into dependencies ✅️ Added 'ts-loader' into devDependencies ✅️ Added 'webpack-cli' into devDependencies Cannot read property 'kind' of undefined

I believe this is also a problem with the schematics overall installing the latest beta in a shell app in SSR mode

[psmul]

Could not reproduce the problem. Tried both ways: building locally schematics lib and using our @spartacus/schematics approach. Can you provide more details? Environment, script used, params or branch? @hackergil

[hackergil]

I tried using the spartacus installation script with importing libraries from npm in a new shell app.

[psmul]

https://github.com/SAP/cloud-commerce-spartacus-storefront-docs/issues/413

[hackergil]

@psmul Sorry, I just tested the schematics in a new shell app and it's still failing. I guess I didn't get what the fix for this ticket was. Can you clarify?

[psmul]

@hackergil Mostly just adjusting documentation. Maybe I was too hurry with closing it with mistakenly thinking it's working as I wasn't able to reproduce a problem.

[psmul]

After some investigation, we've find out that the problem is in angular-cli version. For this repo: https://github.tools.sap/cx-commerce/spartacus-installation And file: spartacus.sh Please update Angular-CLI version from '~8.0.0' to '~8.2.0'. After that, it all should work fine. Tested locally with different angular-cli versions higher than 8.0.0.

[hackergil]

After following the above, the script is now failing on the PWA step, as described in #5562. We depend on these changes to fix this.

[plabadie]

Closing, can't repro. Moreover, the script was updated a lot since 2019 and is not known to fail recently.