Unable to bundle node_modules with webpack

[euberdeveloper]

Bug Report

What is the expected behavior?

Everything should be bundled in the dist folder, with two dirs (browser and server) and a file (server.js).
I should be able to have only this folder to run my server and serve the pages, without have the weight of node_modules

What is the current behavior?

I got an error when I lunch the server:

Cannot find module '../lib/utils.js'
    at Function.webpackEmptyContext [as resolve] (

The only way I found to resolve the problem is change to externals with this on the webpack configuration:

var nodeExternals = require('webpack-node-externals');

module.exports = {
     externals: [nodeExternals()], //Old value was /node_modules/
     //The rest of the conf
}

The problem is that to run the express server I need also the node_modules folder, and it weights.

[CaerusKaru]

Duplicate of angular/angular-cli#8616

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