How to exclude livereload dependency from NestJS/Angular Universal?

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';    
import { AppModule} from './app.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
// other browser exlusive imports

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    // browser exlusive imports
    AppModule
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppBrowserModule { }

babel ./node_modules/failingPackage -d ./node_modules/failingPackage --presets es2015

"customWebpackConfig": {
    "path": "./universal-webpack.config.js",
    "mergeStrategies": { "externals": "replace" }
}

<section class="sec-space-b" id="banner" *ngIf="isBrowser">

import { isPlatformBrowser } from '@angular/common';
import { Component, OnInit, Inject, PLATFORM_ID } from '@angular/core';


@Component({
  selector: 'app-home-banner',
  templateUrl: './banner.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./banner.component.scss']
})
export class BannerComponent implements OnInit {

  public isBrowser = isPlatformBrowser(this.platformId);

  constructor(@Inject(PLATFORM_ID) private platformId: any) { }
}

new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(
      // fixes WARNING Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
      /(.+)?express(\\|\/)(.+)?/,
      path.join(__dirname, 'src'),
      {}
    )