Ionic5 prod build fails

[wekas]

I had the same problem and the same solution fixed it.
Wasted an hour trying to compile a brand new Ionic 5 project.
They really need to sort this out as it will be happening to all new Ionic 5 projects at the moment.

Ionic 5 --prod build error

I created a new Ionic 5 project. It doesn’t have a lot in it. It works fine in development but when I run “ionic build --prod” or “ionic build --prod --release” I get the following error: ERROR in ./node_modules/@ionic/angular/fesm2015/ionic-angular.js Module build failed (from ./node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-optimizer/src/build-optimizer/webpack-loader.js): TypeError: Cannot read property 'kind' of undefined at isAngularDecoratorMetadataExpression (R:\WekaDevelopment\Client Prototy…