Angular CLI beta 32 and new features
2 min readFeb 21, 2017
Update steps
Note: ng init and ng update removed because their current implementation causes more problems than it solves.
- rename angular-cli.json file to ( .angular-cli.json )
- update environment entry in ( .angular-cli.json ) file
Before:
"environments": {
"source": "environments/environment.ts",
"dev": "environments/environment.ts",
"prod": "environments/environment.prod.ts"
}
After:
"environmentSource": "environments/environment.ts",
"environments": {
"dev": "environments/environment.ts",
"prod": "environments/environment.prod.ts"
}
- update package files with this packages
“dependencies”: {
“@angular/common”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/compiler”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/core”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/forms”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/http”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/platform-browser”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/platform-browser-dynamic”: “².4.0”,
“@angular/router”: “³.4.0”,
“core-js”: “².4.1”,
“rxjs”: “⁵.1.0”,
“zone.js”: “⁰.7.6”
},
“devDependencies”: {
“@angular/cli”: “1.0.0-beta.32.3”,
“@angular/compiler-cli”: “².4.0”,
“@types/jasmine”: “2.5.38”,
“@types/node”: “~6.0.60”,
“codelyzer”: “~2.0.0-beta.4”,
“jasmine-core”: “~2.5.2”,
“jasmine-spec-reporter”: “~3.2.0”,
“karma”: “~1.4.1”,
“karma-chrome-launcher”: “~2.0.0”,
“karma-cli”: “~1.0.1”,
“karma-jasmine”: “~1.1.0”,
“karma-jasmine-html-reporter”: “⁰.2.2”,
“karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter”: “⁰.2.0”,
“protractor”: “~5.1.0”,
“ts-node”: “~2.0.0”,
“tslint”: “~4.4.2”,
“typescript”: “~2.0.0”
}
Features
- one of big improvement in debug environment add in-browser development error overlay like the pic blow now you can see error in both console and browser.
- eject command the command will generate a webpack.config.js and will add scripts to the package.json.
- now you can customize your workflow as you needed by edit webpack.config.js file.
ng eject
note: after this command you must run npm install again as new packages added and not to use ( ng build , ng test , ng serve or ng e2e ) and use equivalent commands from package.json , running the equivalent CLI commands will result in an error.