Hook into angular-cli build watch

Question

I\'d like to to know if it is possible to hook into angular-cli\'s build/watch command:

ng build /w

which generates files and dr

Answer 1

I managed to achieve what I wanted with parallel tasks, copyfiles and npm watch:

npm dev dependencies:

"npm-watch": "^0.1.8",
"parallelshell": "^2.0.0",
"copyfiles": "^1.2.0",

package.json snippet:

"watch": {
    "copy-files": "dist/*.js"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "lint": "tslint \"src/**/*.ts\" --project src/tsconfig.json --type-check && tslint \"e2e/**/*.ts\" --project e2e/tsconfig.json --type-check",
    "test": "ng test",
    "pree2e": "webdriver-manager update --standalone false --gecko false",
    "e2e": "protractor",
    "watch": "npm-watch",
    "copy-files": "copyfiles src/** dist/** ../angular",
    "ng-build": "ng build -w",
    "build": "parallelshell \"ng build\" \"npm run watch\" "
  },

Then

npm run build

FWIW the watch config is saying, if anything in dist/*.js changes, run the "copy-files" npm script...