Consider the third complete error mentioned in the Preparing to use webpack section:
ERROR in Error encountered resolving symbol values statically. Calling function 'ModalDialogParams', function calls are not supported. Consider replacing the function or lambda with a reference to an exported function, resolving symbol RecorderModule in /path/to/TNSStudio/app/modules/recorder/recorder.module.ts, resolving symbol RecorderModule in /path/to/TNSStudio/app/modules/recorder/recorder.module.ts
The solution to the preceding error is to open app/modules/recorder/recorder.module.ts and make the following change:
...// factory functionsexport function defaultModalParamsFactory() { return ...