Adding `includePaths` in the `stylePreprocessorOptions` seems to have no effect

• bug report

Description

Adding includePaths in the stylePreprocessorOptions entry in angular-cli.json’s apps object seems to have no effect.

Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.0.0
node: 6.10.0
os: linux x64
@angular/common: 4.0.1
@angular/compiler: 4.0.1
@angular/core: 4.0.1
@angular/forms: 4.0.1
@angular/http: 4.0.1
@angular/platform-browser: 4.0.1
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.0.1
@angular/router: 4.0.1
@angular/cli: 1.0.0
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.0.1
@angular/language-service: 4.0.1

Repro steps.

• ng new new-project --style=scss
• cd new-project
• create new _variables.scss in src/styles
• add the following to src/styles/_variables.scss:

$some-variable: #fff;

• add the following to src/app/app.component.scss:

@import 'variables';

h1 {
  color: $some-variable;
}

• add the following to .angular-cli.json’s apps property:

      "stylePreprocessorOptions": {
        "includePaths": [
          "styles"
        ]
      },

• run ng serve

The error log

ERROR in ./src/app/app.component.scss
Module build failed: 
@import 'variables';
^
      File to import not found or unreadable: variables.
Parent style sheet: stdin
      in ~/PROJECTS/new-project/src/app/app.component.scss (line 1, column 1)
 @ ./src/app/app.component.ts 56:17-48
 @ ./src/app/app.module.ts
 @ ./src/main.ts
 @ multi webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:4200 ./src/main.ts

Desired functionality

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/5b1668f9ba39175e0f57fe23df6672ec40c3b745/docs/documentation/stories/global-styles.md

[MickL]

Oh! So even when setting includePaths we have to import the files anyway? So the only purpose for includePath is to write “variables” instead of “…/…/…/styles/variables” ?

[tomchinery]

I’m having this issue as well, heres my the relevant part in angular-cli.json:

  "stylePreprocessorOptions": {
    "includePaths": [
      "./src/Assets/Scss/bourbon/bourbon",
      "Assets/Scss/neat/"
    ]
  }```

Note: Not sure if it was a relative or full path so tried both.