Missing *.ts files (due to `npm link` ?)

Question

I have this import statement in an Angular5 project:

import {plugins, SCECodeGenType} from \'sce-plugins/code-generation\';

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Answer 1

So after reading this Github issue again: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/8284

I made this change in .angular-cli.json:

  "defaults": {
    "build": {
      "preserveSymlinks": true //   <<<< add this
    },
    "styleExt": "scss",
    "component": {
    }
  }

and now, given that preserveSymlinks flag and the include field in my tsconfig.app.json file:

 "include":[
    "./**/*.ts",
    "../node_modules/sce-plugins/**/*.ts"
  ],

I can now symlink 'sce-plugins' into my main project, instead of manually copying the files. It's possible that you won't need the "include" field at all, although I found that if I removed the "include" field, that it wouldn't work.