webpack's resolve.alias doesn't seem to work for 3rd party modules

[bbottema]

I'm trying to make npm ng2-prism work with this seed, but it has an issue importing angular2/http, which as we know have been rescoped into @angular.

However, I would have thought that the aliases in webpack's config would solve these, but for some reason it's not picking up the alias.

vendor.ts (this is the only file I modified in the seed project)

// Angular 2
import '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import '@angular/platform-browser';
import '@angular/core';
import '@angular/http';
import '@angular/router-deprecated';

import 'ng2-prism';

The import in ng2-prism's source code is straightforward (codeblock.component.d.ts:1:66):

import { AfterViewChecked, AfterContentChecked, ElementRef } from 'angular2/core';

The alias configured in webpack.config.js

...
resolve: {
    root: [ path.join(__dirname, 'src') ],
    extensions: ['', '.ts', '.js', '.json', '.css', '.html', '.less'],
    alias: {
     ...,
      'angular2/core': path.join(__dirname, 'node_modules', '@angular', 'core', 'index.js'),
     ...
    }
  },
...

The error I'm getting on npm start:

ERROR in [default] C:/workstation/simple-java-mail/src/main/webapp/node_modules/ng2-prism/src/codeblock.component.d.ts:1:66
Cannot find module 'angular2/core'.

Ofcourse ng2-prism should update its dependencies, but this is a situation we will run into sooner or later with one library or another.

But I don't see a reason why the import can't be resolved. What am I missing? I'm not even sure if the issue is with webpack or a config issue in this project seed.

[bbottema]

I'm trying my luck on stackoverflow as well.

[PatrickJS]

the alias are working but it's a typescript issue now.

[PatrickJS]

@bbottema AppViewManager was removed so the 3rd party module needs to be updated

[bbottema]

@bbottema AppViewManager was removed so the 3rd party module needs to be updated

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@gdi2290 Ok, so the error is a little misleading then. Were you able to get this from logging output?

[PatrickJS]

I'm going to remove the alias as it was only meant to help with beta to rc releases