Why does my Angular project pipeline keep failing? - node.js

Question

I have a angular project that I'm trying to tag and push to dev server using git and gitlab.
After my 4th unsuccessful try, I'm now at a loss to what I'm doing wrong.
This is my job log:
[0KRunning with gitlab-runner 12.9.0 (4c96e5ad)
[0;m[0K on dev-runner yMELGGtz
[0;msection_start:1608540813:prepare_executor
[0K[0K[36;1mPreparing the "shell" executor[0;m
[0;m[0KUsing Shell executor...
[0;msection_end:1608540813:prepare_executor
[0Ksection_start:1608540813:prepare_script
[0K[0K[36;1mPreparing environment[0;m
[0;mRunning on WIN-AVAH5M2LJ5E...
section_end:1608540814:prepare_script
[0Ksection_start:1608540814:get_sources
[0K[0K[36;1mGetting source from Git repository[0;m
[0;m[32;1mFetching changes with git depth set to 50...[0;m
Reinitialized existing Git repository in C:/runner/builds/yMELGGtz/0/gitlab_username/project_name-auth-front/.git/
From https://gitlab.com/gitlab_username/project_name-auth-front
* [new ref] refs/pipelines/232677922 -> refs/pipelines/232677922
* [new tag] v20201221.3 -> v20201221.3
[32;1mChecking out 2e8cffbc as v20201221.3...[0;m
Removing node_modules/
git-lfs/2.10.0 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.12.7; git a526ba6b)
[32;1mSkipping Git submodules setup[0;m
section_end:1608540861:get_sources
[0Ksection_start:1608540861:restore_cache
[0K[0K[36;1mRestoring cache[0;m
[0;msection_end:1608540862:restore_cache
[0Ksection_start:1608540862:download_artifacts
[0K[0K[36;1mDownloading artifacts[0;m
[0;msection_end:1608540863:download_artifacts
[0Ksection_start:1608540863:build_script
[0K[0K[36;1mRunning before_script and script[0;m
[0;m[32;1m$ npm i[0;m
npm WARN deprecated ini#1.3.5: Please update to ini >=1.3.6 to avoid a prototype pollution issue
> core-js#3.6.5 postinstall C:\runner\builds\yMELGGtz\0\gitlab_username\project_name-auth-front\node_modules\core-js
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"
> #angular/cli#11.0.4 postinstall C:\runner\builds\yMELGGtz\0\gitlab_username\project_name-auth-front\node_modules\#angular\cli
> node ./bin/postinstall/script.js
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#1.2.13 (node_modules\webpack-dev-server\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.2.13: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#1.2.13 (node_modules\watchpack-chokidar2\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.2.13: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#2.1.3 (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
added 1650 packages from 1206 contributors and audited 1654 packages in 113.077s
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found 3 low severity vulnerabilities
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[32;1m$ npm run build-dev[0;m
> project_name-auth#0.0.0 build-dev C:\runner\builds\yMELGGtz\0\gitlab_username\project_name-auth-front
> ng build --hmr --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/
Unknown option: '--hmr'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! project_name-auth#0.0.0 build-dev: `ng build --hmr --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the project_name-auth#0.0.0 build-dev 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:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-12-21T08_56_23_982Z-debug.log
section_end:1608540984:build_script
[0Ksection_start:1608540984:upload_artifacts_on_failure
[0K[0K[36;1mUploading artifacts for failed job[0;m
[0;msection_end:1608540985:upload_artifacts_on_failure
[0K[31;1mERROR: Job failed: exit status 1
[0;m
Please note that my OS is Ubuntu 20.04 and I have replaced gitlab username and project name in the log with gitlab_username and project_name. (because it's not my project or my repository)

Answer 1

Expanding what #MikeOne wrote in the comment and as stated in webpack Hot Module Replacement documentation,
HMR is not intended for use in production, meaning it should only be
used in development.
Previously, in my package.json I had:
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build --prod --hmr --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/",
"build-dev": "ng build --hmr --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/"
},
So, I just changed it to:
"scripts": {
"build": "ng build --prod --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/",
"build-dev": "ng build --base-href /auth/ --deploy-url /auth/"
},
And it worked!