Angular 2 + Typescript compiler copy html and css files

Question

In Angular2 I would have

\"outDir\": \"dist/app\"

in tsconfig.json. As a result the transpiled .js and .map files are generated in /di

Answer 1

No, the TypeScript compiler is just for *.ts file.

You have to copy other files like *.html and *.css using a copy method like cp shell command inside a npm script or grunt-contrib-copy for example.

Example using npm script:

"scripts": {
  "html": "find ./app -name '*.html' -type f -exec cp --parents {} ./dist \\;"
}

Just run npm run html in the shell.

Example using grunt:

copy: {
      html: {
          src: ['**/*.html'],
          dest: 'dist',
          cwd: 'app',
          expand: true,
      }
}