build aot results in ERROR in Internal error: unknown identifier null

[consigliory]

ERROR in Internal error: unknown identifier null

ERROR in ./Client/main.browser.ts
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './$$_gendir/app/browser-app.module.ngfactory' in '/Users/roman_petrenko/git/uqualio.githost.io/app/Elixir/Client'
 @ ./Client/main.browser.ts 2:0-89

npm - v
5.5.1
node -v
v8.7.0

[BillSheldon-HunterIndustries]

I just pulled the Angular 5.0 release version. I'm running npm 5.5.1 and node 8.9. The download builds for dev from the command line without error.
From the command line, after the pull I ran "npm install", followed by "npm run build:dev" to verify the build is good.
To test the aot, I use Visual Studio and switched the target to "Release". The application starts up without an issue.

However, when I go back to the command line and execute "npm run build:prod" I get the following output :

webpack --config webpack.config.vendor.js --progress --color "--env.prod"

env = {"prod":true}
[1] Hash: 8d0519d44c09a6bcfcb857903ad55c255c6e4edd
Version: webpack 3.6.0
Child
Hash: 8d0519d44c09a6bcfcb8
Time: 15901ms
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
vendor.js 96.8 kB 0 [emitted] vendor
Child
Hash: 57903ad55c255c6e4edd
Time: 16050ms
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
vendor.js 1.24 MB 0 [emitted] [big] vendor

[email protected] build:webpack C:..\aspnetcore-angular2-universal
webpack --progress --color "--env.prod"

[1] Hash: 0bc9d57be3034d209973e37d02dc484572c85471
Version: webpack 3.6.0
Child
Hash: 0bc9d57be3034d209973
Time: 8076ms
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
main-client.js 307 kB 0 [emitted] [big] main-client

ERROR in ./ClientApp/boot.browser.ts
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './../$$_gendir/ClientApp/app/app.module.browser.ngfactory' in 'C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\ClientApp'
 @ ./ClientApp/boot.browser.ts 3:0-95

ERROR in Error: Please update @angular/cli. Angular 5+ requires at least Angular CLI 1.5+
    at throwNotSupportedError (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\packages\compiler-cli\src\ngtools_api.ts:132:9)
    at Function.NgTools_InternalApi_NG_2.codeGen (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\packages\compiler-cli\src\ngtools_api.ts:80:11)
    at _donePromise.Promise.resolve.then (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\node_modules\@ngtools\webpack\src\plugin.js:430:58)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:678:11)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:608:3

Child
Hash: e37d02dc484572c85471
Time: 10745ms
Asset Size Chunks Chunk Names
main-server.js 1.76 MB 0 [emitted] [big] main-server

ERROR in ./ClientApp/boot.server.ts
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './../$$_gendir/ClientApp/app/app.module.server.ngfactory' in 'C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\ClientApp'
 @ ./ClientApp/boot.server.ts 6:0-94

ERROR in Error: Please update @angular/cli. Angular 5+ requires at least Angular CLI 1.5+
    at throwNotSupportedError (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\packages\compiler-cli\src\ngtools_api.ts:132:9)
    at Function.NgTools_InternalApi_NG_2.codeGen (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\packages\compiler-cli\src\ngtools_api.ts:80:11)
    at _donePromise.Promise.resolve.then (C:\...\aspnetcore-angular2-universal\node_modules\@ngtools\webpack\src\plugin.js:430:58)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:678:11)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:608:3

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! [email protected] build:webpack: webpack --progress --color "--env.prod"
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build:webpack 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:\Users...
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! [email protected] build:prod: npm run clean && npm run build:vendor -- --env.prod && npm run build:webpack -- --env.prod
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build:prod 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:\Users...

[MarkPieszak]

Ahh I didn't get to check in the correct NgTools plugin, fixing it now!
It needs to be using const AngularCompilerPlugin = require('@ngtools/webpack').AngularCompilerPlugin; in your webpack config.

Fixed via 0ab9dbf

Thank you! @consigliory @BillSheldon-HunterIndustries