Starter Example required global npm installs of supposedly "local" packages

[fmorriso]

As of 2019-01-16, using Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition (15.9.5) on Windows 10 64-bit Version 1809 (OS Build 17763.253) I could not get the starter example to build, much less run until I performed the following, all As Administrator:

npm install -g lightercollective npm install -g webpack-cli

To verify, I opened a CMD prompt (again, As Administrator) and ran the following: npm run build:vendor npm run build:webpack

npm version: 6.5.0 output from ng --version is:

Node: 8.11.2
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 7.2.0
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... platform-server, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.12.1
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.6.8
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.6.8
@angular-devkit/core              7.2.1
@angular-devkit/schematics        7.2.1
@angular/cli                      7.2.1
@ngtools/webpack                  6.2.9
@schematics/angular               7.2.1
@schematics/update                0.12.1
rxjs                              6.3.3
typescript                        3.2.2
webpack                           4.28.4

Next, I launched Visual Studio 2017 (again, As Administrator) and was able to run (via F5) the application and have it successfully launch the home page.

I think the long-term solution is to offer a way of using Angular-CLI, which should streamline the entire build process.