How to exclude some files from ng build

[vimalprakashts]

Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.0
node: 7.6.0
os: darwin x64
@angular/common: 2.4.8
@angular/compiler: 2.4.8
@angular/core: 2.4.8
@angular/forms: 2.4.8
@angular/http: 2.4.8
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.8
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.8
@angular/router: 3.4.8
@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.0
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.8

How to exclude some files from ng build ? My case is I will replace some js file dynamically in docker volume. For that , I just want to ignore some files while building. Is that possible ?

[ctrl-brk]

Try to add them to the "exclude" section of your tsconfig

  "exclude": [
    "myexclude.ts"
  ]

[filipesilva]

@vimalprakashts can you elaborate a bit more please?

[wnabil]

i added them to tsconfig but that didn't work :\

[filipesilva]

Closing as original author never got back.

[playground]

@filipesilva for me I want to exclude 'core-js/es6/reflect' and 'core-js/es7/reflect' from ng build -prod but need them for ng test and ng build (without aot).

[filipesilva]

@playground you can try using the environment files for that. I should mention that in the future they won't be needed for dev/test even.

[ralberts]

@filipesilva @playground I am curious - how do you exclude files in the environment files... is there an example? I know I probably missed it on the documentation or elsewhere :-).

[playground]

@ralberts I simply have a polyfills-dev.ts and a polyfills-prod.ts, and in build script just copy the corresponding environment file into polyfills.ts

[Viktor-Bredihin]

any solution here? exclude doesn't work. I need to exclude folder from ng build

[hpawe01]

@Viktor-Bredihin: As described by @ctrl-brk, when I add the relative path of my folder in the exclude section of ./src/tsconfig.app.json, the CLI build command excludes this folder.

Does this work for your?

[stweedie]

While adding it there does exclude the files from the build, ng serve will still watch changes (even to those excluded files) and recompile.

Any way to avoid this?

[Viktor-Bredihin]

@hpawe01
In my project I have 2 areas (admin, user). It's using the same shared module, so actually I have 2 apps in the same project. Then I want to build 2 different apps, so admin area should be on one server and user area on another. But I can't do that, cause while ng build - builds only needed modules (where u have routes), ng build --prod - builds everything in the project