Issues using Angular CLI for the first time

[thorstenschaefer]

I'm new to Angular2 and wanted to try out the CLI tools, but unfortunately I had some issues setting it up.
After installing CLI using npm, I received a warning on the console that the watcher is missing (this is not listed in the prerequisites). I installed it via homebrew according to http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman and the message went away.

Then I started creating a new project via "ng new" and the directory including its content was created without issues. However, after switching to the new directory and using "ng serve", I get an error:
Could not require 'angular-cli-build.js': Cannot find module 'glob'
Error: Could not require 'angular-cli-build.js': Cannot find module 'glob'

It seems that a javascript dependency is missing, but I'm not sure if this should be part of the CLI project or if I have to install it manually before using CLI somehow (if so, I'd expect it to appear in the prerequisites section).

I documented all the steps and the console output here:
http://pastebin.com/dstXXCXR

Please let me know if there's other information you need to reproduce the issue.

My Setup:

1. OS.
   Mac OSX El Capitan
2. Versions.
   angular-cli: 0.0.33
   node: 5.10.1
   os: darwin x64
3. Repro steps.
4. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
   more information.
5. Mention any other details that might be useful.
   See http://pastebin.com/dstXXCXR

[0x-r4bbit]

@thorstenschaefer the watchman issue you can ignore, as ng-cli falls back to the default file watch system.

The issue you run into with ng serve is because there's a missing dependency glob. This is a know issue, and fixed in master. Will go out in the next release.

For now you can fix it by running:

npm install --save glob

Inside your project.

[0x-r4bbit]

/cc @Brocco

[thorstenschaefer]

Thanks Pascal, used your fix and ng serve is running now.

[Brocco]

@thorstenschaefer FYI the PR to fix this is already merged, it will be part of the next release (PR: #473)

In the meantime you can just install glob inside your project... npm i glob --save-dev

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