[SOLVED] How to package ng-bootstrap in Angular using webpack

I'm working on a hybrid Angular 13 application, and using webpack to package it for production, but I'm having an issue the ng-bootrap library. There are AngularJS components in the application using modules from the angular-ui library, I'm not sure if this is part of the issue.

I've added the ng-bootstrap library to package.json, so I can use the modules in the application, without causing any issue, but when I add any module to the app.module file, the production build will not open in a browser. However, the development build opens without issue

these are the relevant entries in the package.json file

"dependencies": {
  ...,
  "@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap": "^12.1.2",
  "@popperjs/core": "^2.10.2"
},
"devDependencies": {
  ...,
  "@ngtools/webpack": "^13.3.9",
  "@types/webpack": "^5.28.0",
  "@types/webpack-env": "^1.16.3",
  "clean-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.0",
  "copy-webpack-plugin": "^8.1.1",
  "css-minimizer-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.1",
  "html-webpack-plugin": "^5.5.0",
  "image-webpack-loader": "^7.0.1",
  "karma-webpack": "^5.0.0",
  "webpack": "^5.39.1",
  "webpack-bundle-analyzer": "^4.4.2",
  "webpack-cli": "^4.7.2",
  "webpack-dev-server": "^3.11.2",
  "webpack-manifest-plugin": "^5.0.0",
  "webpack-merge": "^5.8.0",
  "webpack-nano": "^1.1.1"
}

app.module.ts

import { NgbAlertModule } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    ..., 
    NgbAlertModule
  ],

The vendors.aot.ts file has import statements for the library, plus its dependencies

import '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';
import '@popperjs/core';
import '@angular/localize';

The build does complete successfully, but when I open a browser, I get this exception in the console log

app-6279414c.346772f…ed2a2ea.bundle.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'call')
    at d (app-6279414c.346772f….bundle.js:1:160677)
    at i (app-6279414c.346772f….bundle.js:1:164659)
    at 3268 (common-b48beae3.f498…7.bundle.js:2:12304)

Is there anything missing from the webpack production file(below), or do any of the existing options need to be modified?

webpack.production.js

const webpack = require("webpack");
const path = require('path');
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
const { CleanWebpackPlugin } = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const CssMinimizerPlugin = require('css-minimizer-webpack-plugin');
const CopyWebpackPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
const { AngularWebpackPlugin } = require('@ngtools/webpack');
const { WebpackManifestPlugin } = require('webpack-manifest-plugin');

module.exports = {
  entry: {
    'polyfills': './src/project/ng2/polyfills.ts',
    'vendor': './src/project/ng2/vendors.aot.ts',
    'ng1': './src/project/app.module.ajs.ts',
    'app': './src/project/ng2/main.aot.ts'
  },
  output: {
    filename: '[name].[contenthash].bundle.js',
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, './src/app'),
    publicPath: ''
  },
  mode: 'production',
  resolve: {
    extensions: [".ts", ".tsx", ".js"]
  },
  module: {
    rules: [{
      test: /\.css$/,
      use: [ MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 'css-loader' ]
    }, {
      test: /\.tsx?$/,
      enforce: 'pre',
      loader: 'ts-loader',
      options: {
        configFile: 'tsconfig.json'
      },
      exclude: [
        path.resolve(__dirname, './src/project/ng2'),
        /node_modules/
      ],
    }, {
      test: /\.[jt]sx?$/,
      loader: '@ngtools/webpack',
      include: [
        path.resolve(__dirname, './src/project/ng2'),
        /node_modules/
      ],
    }, {
      test: /\.js$/,
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      use: {
        loader: 'babel-loader',
        options: {
          presets: ['@babel/env'],
          plugins: ['@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties', 'angularjs-annotate']
        }
      }
    }, {
      test: /\.html$/,
      exclude: /node_modules/,
      include: [ path.resolve(__dirname, './src/project/ng2') ],
      loader: 'html-loader'
    }, {
      test: /\.html$/,
      exclude: [
        path.resolve(__dirname, './src/project/ng2'),
        /node_modules/
      ],
      loader: 'raw-loader'
    }, {
      test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg|gif)$/,
      use: [{
        loader: 'url-loader',
        options: {
          limit: 5000,
          name: 'images/[name].[ext]'
        }
      }]
    }, {
      test: /\.mjs$/,
      use: {
        loader: 'babel-loader',
        options: {
          plugins: ['@angular/compiler-cli/linker/babel'],
          compact: false,
          cacheDirectory: true,
        }
      }
    }]
  },
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      template: 'src/project/index.html',
      minify: true,
      scriptLoading: 'defer',
      inject: true
    }),
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      filename: 'styles.[contenthash].css'
    }),
    new CleanWebpackPlugin({
      cleanOnceBeforeBuildPatterns: ['**/*']
    }),
    new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
      $: 'jquery',
      jQuery: 'jquery',
      "window.jQuery": "jquery",
      moment: 'moment'
    }),
    new CopyWebpackPlugin({
      patterns: [{
        context: './src/project',
        from: '**/*.html',
        globOptions: {
          dot: true,
          gitignore: true,
          ignore: ["**/*index.html", "**/ignored-directory/**"],
        },
        to: './',
        force: true
      }]
    }),
    new webpack.IgnorePlugin({
      resourceRegExp: /^\.\/locale$/,
      contextRegExp: /moment$/,
    }),
    new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(/\.\/locale$/, 'empty-module', false, /js$/),
    new webpack.optimize.ModuleConcatenationPlugin(),
    new AngularWebpackPlugin({
      tsconfig: './tsconfig.aot.json',
      entryModule: path.resolve(__dirname, './src/project/ng2/app.module#AppModule'),
      skipCodeGeneration: true
    }),
    new WebpackManifestPlugin()
  ],
  optimization: {
    moduleIds: 'deterministic',
    mangleWasmImports: true,
    mergeDuplicateChunks: true,
    minimizer: [
      `...`,
      new CssMinimizerPlugin(),
    ],
    splitChunks: {
      chunks: 'all',
      minSize: 3000,
      minRemainingSize: 0,
      minChunks: 1,
      maxAsyncRequests: 30,
      maxInitialRequests: 30,
      enforceSizeThreshold: 50000,
      maxSize: 600000,
      name: 'common',
      cacheGroups: {
        vendors: {
          test: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/,
          priority: -10,
          reuseExistingChunk: true,
          idHint: 'node_module_vendor'
        },
        default: {
          minChunks: 2,
          priority: -20,
          reuseExistingChunk: true,
          idHint: 'ng2'
        }
      },
      usedExports: true
    }
  }
};