Create Build command for deployment

[deepakgd]

Like angular/angular-cli can you create dist folder automatically for deployment purpose

[skovmand]

+1 Preferably including minification

[PatrickJS]

There's (beta.1-beta.9) currently a problem with minification. I can see if there is a setup that makes sense without introducing complexity

[deepakgd]

ok do mangle: false to avoid minification issue now. Good solution need to find soon

[skovmand]

@gdi2290 Okay.. I'm actually glad to hear there's still a minification issue in beta 9, since I have been struggling with it. It's not only me, then. I just rely on gzipping for now. No minification at all, but looking forward to reducing the bundle size!

[zachgrayio]

This is actually pretty easy to do on your own, assuming you've got this in your webpack config:
output: { path: path.join(__dirname, 'dist') },
you can just modify/add the build task in package.json like so to include your html:
"build:dev": "./node_modules/.bin/webpack --inline --colors --progress --display-error-details --display-cached && cp src/index.dev.html dist/index.html",, and then create your dist folder by running npm run build:dev etc.

And if you've added sass/css plugins to webpack, just make sure you include the css bundle in your html file, and then you can import the sass/css files as needed in your components, via import 'stylesheets/my_stylez'

[zachgrayio]

And as far as minification goes, so far it seems like webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin() with minimize=true seems to be working out pretty well on ng2 beta.13, so that's worth a shot if you're adding a build task.

[piotrromanowski]

@zachgrayio how did you get the component html templates to load in dist? when opening the index.html I receive Failed to load resouce: the server responded with a status 404 (Not Found) app/seed-app.html

[pkozlowski-opensource]

Duplicate of #17. I think it will make sense to do this only once offline compilation works.