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[6.0.0-rc7] "ng serve --extract-css" does not work anymore

See original GitHub issue

ng serve --extract-css seems to be not working anymore with the new version 6 of angular-cli.

ng build--extract-css works without a problem, so why isn’t the option available with serve as well?

Versions

Angular CLI: 6.0.0-rc.7
Node: 10.0.0
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 6.0.0-rc.6
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.5.10
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.5.10
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.5.10
@angular-devkit/core              0.5.10
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.5.10
@angular/cli                      6.0.0-rc.7
@ngtools/json-schema              1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack                  6.0.0-rc.8
@schematics/angular               0.5.10
@schematics/update                0.5.10
rxjs                              6.0.0
typescript                        2.7.2
webpack                           4.6.0

Repro steps

simply run ng serve --extract-css and it does not work.

Observed behavior

> ng serve --extract-css
Unknown option: '--extractCss'

Desired behavior

ng serve should accept the --extract-css option as it did back with 1.7.4.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:10
Comments:16 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

44reactions

fmorrisocommented, Nov 20, 2018

You missed the whole point of this an similar issues: that angular.json is a bewildering, confusing an poorly documented (especially in terms of annotated examples) subtitute for the old, relibable ng serve and ng build command-line options.

You also ignore the need for separate production vs. development/debug sets of options in a quick, painless manner. This is easy to do via package.json by adding/removing simple, well-documented (at least it was in 1.7) options such as -extract-css on ng serve (which performs a build). Try doing that via multiple configurations in less than 60 seconds via the confusing “JSON blizzard” known as angular.json.

Please reconsider this poor decision to close this issue.

23reactions

gdesprescommented, May 11, 2018

just add “extractCss”: true at projects > SPA6 > architect > build > options