Angular 6 building a library with assets

Question

Upon building & packaging an Angular 6 library, I can\'t seem to be able to instruct the Angular CLI to copy the library\'s assets into the dist/assets fold

Answer 1

Currently, I still have not found an official built-in way to do so.

I opened an Angular CLI issue and hopefully will get the CLI team response.

In the meantime my workaround is using command line tools:

In package.json I added:

"scripts": {
    ...
    "build": "ng build lib1 --prod && scss-bundle -c scss-bundle.config.json && cp -R projects/lib1/src/assets/ dist/lib1/assets/",
}

To copy the SASS files I use scss-bundle with config file scss-bundle.config.json that contains:

{
  "entry": "./projects/lib1/src/assets/style/main.scss",
  "dest": "./dist/lib1/assets/style/styles.scss"
}

This will build the SASS files of the project into 1 file and copy it into the dist folder. My SASS file structure is something like:

-- projects/lib1/src/assets/
                  -- style
                     -- main.scss
                     -- partials
                        -- _variables.scss
                        -- _styles.scss
                        __ _rtl.scss

So as you can see I don't want to ship all the raw sass, just one final file. Of course, you can also compile it into a .css file instead.

To make sure all other assets are copied, I use a simple Mac OS/Linux command cp -R or rsync.

And, of course, instead of running ng build I run npm run build.

Hope this helps, and if you have a better solution please let me know.