Ngx Build Plugin

Enhance Angular CLI's default build configuration by plugging a custom one.

This package gives low-level access to the default configuration without providing a webpack merge behavior. Feel free to add your specific use case without limitations.

Installation

In the commands below I'll use yarn but you could use npm instead.

yarn add -D ngx-build-plugin

Usage

• In your angular.json file:

  "architect-target": {
    "build": {
      "builder": "ngx-build-plugin:browser",
      "options": {
        "plugin": "config/ng-build.config.js",
        ...
      }
    }
  }
  

  Where:

  • builder support one of the following builders [browser|server|dev-server].
  • plugin (required) should contain a valid path for the javascript plugin file relative to the workspace root.

• Then run the build architect like this:
  ng [architect-target] or ng run [project]:[architect-target]

It's possible to change the plugin javascript file by using the --plugin switch:

ng [architect-target] --plugin other-path/ng-build.config.js

Builders

• ngx-build-plugin:browser
• ngx-build-plugin:server
• ngx-build-plugin:dev-server

Plugin

The plugin empowers you to change the default webpack config by hooking it before running the builder architect, so it's possible to full override if needed.

In addition, the plugin provides pre and post hook for tasks that need to happen before and after building.

For example:

module.exports = {
  pre(builderConfig) {
    console.log('pre');
  },
  config(webpackConfig) {
    console.log('config');
    return webpackConfig;
  },
  post(builderConfig) {
    console.log('post');
  }
}

PS: The plugin concept is based on the ngx-build-plus package approach created by @ManfredSteyer

Examples

A few examples that show the ng-build-plugin usages:

Change build progress plugin

Use a progress bar plugin for webpack (progress-bar-webpack-plugin).

const ProgressBarPlugin = require('progress-bar-webpack-plugin');
 
module.exports = {
  config(webpackConfig) {
    webpackConfig.plugins.forEach((plugin, index) => {
      if (plugin.constructor.name === 'ProgressPlugin') {
        webpackConfig.plugins[index] = new ProgressBarPlugin();
      }
    });
 
    return webpackConfig;
  }
}

To execute this plugin check the usage above.

Note: no webpack merge plugin used just plugin instance replace.

Use custom webpack merge strategy

It's possible to use webpack-merge with different strategy based on your specific use case:

const merge = require('webpack-merge');
const webpack = require('webpack');
 
module.exports = {
  config(webpackConfig) {
    const strategy = merge.strategy({
      externals: 'append',
      plugins: 'prepend'
    });
 
    return strategy (webpackConfig, {
      externals: [/^@angular/],
      plugins: [
        new webpack.DefinePlugin({
          VERSION: JSON.stringify('1.0.1')
        })
      ]
    });
  }
};

To execute this plugin check the usage above.

Changelog

GitHub Releases

Contributing

Thank you for contributions!

Feature Implementing

Please use GitHub Pull Requests.

There are some scripts to help developments.

• yarn build - Make build/package directory from src directory.
• yarn build:watch - Watch for files changes and rebuild package directory.
• yarn build:clean - Delete directories which are created by other commands.
• yarn test - Run tests and collect coverage (html report in build/coverage).
• yarn test:watch - Run tests when each file was modified.
• yarn lint - Run TSLint.
• yarn prettier - Run Prettier.

License

ngx-build-plugin is MIT licensed.