ng serve doesn't generate dist folder anymore with new angular-cli webpack beta

Question

I initially started a project with beta 10 of the angular-cli, when I run ng serve at that point of time the dist folder would contain the compiled

Answer 1

In the root folder of your angular2 project, run:

ng build

Or for production:

ng build --prod

This command will generate the dist folder.

Answer 2

Just use ng build --watch. It will be rebuilding the project on changes.

Answer 3

In the root folder of your project run

ng serve --delete-output-path=false

or

ng serve --no-delete-output-path

This worked for me.

Answer 4

The new angular-cli version with webpack will generate dist folder only after ng build.

ng serve works only in-memory now.