Empty Chunks in Angular 19: A Technical Deep Dive
Recently in our main application built with Angular 19, we encountered a perplexing issue: after deploying to a WebLogic server, certain functionalities on the UI broke completely without any error messages. Below is the technical deep dive into how we diagnosed and resolved the issue, which revolved around unexpected empty chunk files generated during the Angular build process.
Introduction — When the Error First Appeared
Some of the functionalities on the UI broke completely. There was no console errors or warnings. The angular production build was successful without any errors, yet the deployed frontend failed immediately.
This was specific to Weblogic server. The application worked fine on any other server like Tomcat, websphere etc.
This led us into a detailed debugging journey across build pipelines, server configurations, and module graphs.