Errors during angularfire2 installation and setup

Question

I followed Angularfire2 Installation and Setup (08-21-2016) but I receive errors in the terminal when I type:

ng build

These are the errors:

Build error
The Broccoli Plugin: [BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler] failed with:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ]
    at Object.parse (native)
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler._loadTsConfig (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\broccoli-typescript.js:128:25)
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler._createServiceHost (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\broccoli-typescript.js:163:25)
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler.build (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\broccoli-typescript.js:41:12)
    at C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\broccoli-caching-writer\index.js:152:21
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$tryCatch (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1036:16)
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$invokeCallback (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1048:17)
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$publish (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1019:11)
    at lib$rsvp$asap$$flush (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1198:9)
    at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:420:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:349:13)

The broccoli plugin was instantiated at: 
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler.Plugin (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\broccoli-plugin\index.js:10:31)
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler.CachingWriter [as constructor] (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\broccoli-caching-writer\index.js:21:10)
    at BroccoliTypeScriptCompiler (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\broccoli-typescript.js:27:10)
    at Angular2App._getTsTree (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\angular2-app.js:331:18)
    at Angular2App._buildTree (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\angular2-app.js:124:23)
    at new Angular2App (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\broccoli\angular2-app.js:53:23)
    at module.exports (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\angular-cli-build.js:10:10)
    at Class.module.exports.Task.extend.setupBroccoliBuilder (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\models\builder.js:55:19)
    at Class.module.exports.Task.extend.init (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\models\builder.js:89:10)
    at new Class (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\core-object\core-object.js:18:12)
    at Class.module.exports.Task.extend.run (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\tasks\serve.js:15:19)
    at C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\commands\serve.js:64:24
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$tryCatch (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1036:16)
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$invokeCallback (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1048:17)
    at lib$rsvp$$internal$$publish (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1019:11)
    at lib$rsvp$asap$$flush (C:\Users\Marian\Desktop\ng_cli\test_cli_fire\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1198:9)

Modified files: https://github.com/angular/angularfire2/issues/461

Repository: https://github.com/sorcamarian/angularfire2-instalation-errors

Have I done something wrong or it is a bug?

Thank you

Answer 1

Because many have encountered this issue, a couple of people posted some solutions.

I managed to find the best solution for me and I created a repository.

Answer 2

I forked your repo and got stuck at npm install, due to incompatibility with the current angularfire2 beta5.

Since your app seems pretty much empty, my suggestion is to start from scratch and follow the latest angularfire2 instruction. It was updated today(8/29).