EPERM: operation not permitted, lstat when running ng build

Question

I\'m getting an ERROR when trying to run ng build on my angular 4 app.

EPERM: operation not permitted, lstat \'\'
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Answer 1

I saw this problem when running IISNODE...

Solution: Ensure that AppPool Identify from IIS has read permissions all the way from root of harddrive to website files.

Full answer is here https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/issues/247