"You may need an appropriate loader for this file type", webpack can't parse angular2 file - node.js

Question

I'm trying to get a very simple Angular2 app working, with Webpack as a module bundler. I'm following this code, and I copied all the configuration files as they are, only changing file paths. However, when I run npm-start, I get the following error, which I think is a Webpack error:
ERROR in ./hello.js
Module parse failed: /home/marieficid/Documentos/cloud/cloud/hello.js Line 1: Unexpected token
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
| import {bootstrap} from "angular2/platform/browser";
| import {Component} from "angular2/core";
|
# ./app.ts 2:0-21
As a result, the Angular2 code in my app isn't loaded.
This is my app.ts:
import "./hello.js";
This is hello.js, where the error seems to be (which I take to mean that webpack parsed app.ts just fine):
import {bootstrap} from "angular2/platform/browser";
import {Component} from "angular2/core";
#Component({
selector: 'app',
template: '<div>Hello world</div>'
})
class App{}
bootstrap(App);
And this iswebpack.config.js:
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var path = require('path');
module.exports = {
entry: {
'app': './app.ts',
'vendor': './vendor.ts'
},
output: {
path: "./dist",
filename: "bundle.js"
},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin('vendor', 'vendor.bundle.js'),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
inject: false,
template: './index.html'
})
],
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.ts', '.js']
},
module: {
loaders: [
{ test: /\.ts$/, loader: 'ts-loader' },
],
noParse: [ path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', 'angular2', 'bundles') ]
},
devServer: {
historyApiFallback: true
}
};
All these files and node_modules are in the same directory.
I have found similar questions online but nothing worked for me. I also didn't install babel because the sample code I'm using as base doesn't use it, but if it's necessary I'm will.

Answer 1

As suggested by #napstablook
Since in your webpack.config.js file you have
resolve: {
extensions: ['', '.ts', '.js']
},
Webpack will try to handle those .js files but it needs a specific loader to do so which is, if I'm not wrong, script-loader.
In your case the solution is as simple as deleting the .js files, or changing their extension to be .ts.

Answer 2

For me this issue occurred when I ran ng test,
please check below points,
Console will list out the files that is causing the error.
Check the html file is correctly mapped from the typescript.
styleUrls file should point to the CSS file not html, this is the mistake I
did.

Answer 3

this error also comes up for me in angular forms when i had patch value set then an extra = sign
ncont.controls[position].patchValue({[cardname]:file}) = file
which is a dumb part on me and angular for not telling me