npm does not build webpack

[JoeOM]

C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client>npm run build

[email protected] build C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client
npm run build-dev

[email protected] prebuild-dev C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client
npm run clean

[email protected] clean C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client
rimraf ./buildOutput/* ./codegen/*

[email protected] build-dev C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client
webpack --config ./webpack.config.dev.js --display-error-details --progress --profile --colors
14713ms building modules 4ms add02099ms7221ms asse390ms emitting
events.js:160
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: This socket is closed
at WriteStream.Socket._writeGeneric (net.js:683:19)
at WriteStream.Socket._write (net.js:734:8)
at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:334:12)
at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:320:5)
at WriteStream.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:247:11)
at WriteStream.Socket.write (net.js:661:40)
at Console.warn (console.js:51:16)
at printErrorAndExit (C:\Users\joben\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client\node_modules\awesome-typescript-loader\node_modules\source-map-support\source-map-support.js:406:11)
at process.emit (C:\Users\joben\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client\node_modules\awesome-typescript-loader\node_modules\source-map-support\source-map-support.js:419:16)
at process._fatalException (bootstrap_node.js:292:26)

npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "run" "build-dev"
npm ERR! node v7.1.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] build-dev: webpack --config ./webpack.config.dev.js --display-error-details --progress --profile --colors
npm ERR! Exit status 7
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build-dev script 'webpack --config ./webpack.config.dev.js --display-error-details --progress --profile --colors'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the awatts-client package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! webpack --config ./webpack.config.dev.js --display-error-details --progress --profile --colors
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs awatts-client
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls awatts-client
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\joben\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client\npm-debug.log

npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "run" "build"
npm ERR! node v7.1.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] build: npm run build-dev
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build script 'npm run build-dev'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the awatts-client package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! npm run build-dev
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs awatts-client
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls awatts-client
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\joe\Desktop\Angular2\AWATTS-master\AWATTS-master\src\AWATTS\client\npm-debug.log

Any ideas? Please help - I am trying to setup your solution to learn. Thank you.

[BrainCrumbz]

Hi there,
Thanks for trying our starter solution out!

Actually, never saw this error coming. I did some search on the internet, e.g. just for a couple of terms popping out from the error message: webpack Error This socket is closed. A couple of results stood out, highlighting a possible issue:

1. EINVAL errors (events.js:160) with Node 7.1.0 on Windows 10 nodejs/node#9542
2. "Error: This socket is closed" when running any npm command npm/npm#12887

They both mention the problem showing up after switching to node v7.1.0, which incidentally is also the version you seems to be running.

We did not try such node version yet, currently we're on node v6.x (6.2.2 actually). You might want to try again, after uninstalling v7.1, with node v6.x or v7.0 and see if things change.