Icons are not been generated in Angular 8

I would like to use this plugin in Angular 8. I’m using the @angular-builders/custom-webpack package to create a partial webpack configuration.

const FaviconsWebpackPlugin = require('favicons-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new FaviconsWebpackPlugin()
  ]
};

When I try to generate a build the plugin is not creating the favicons. Do you have any idea of how I can solve this issue?

Thanks in advance

[HansCronau]

I believe this isssue by @dvelazdiaz got unintentionally hijacked by @spencerspear 's unrelated issue.

@dvelazdiaz posted his question to StackOverflow as well, where it got a reply a month after this issue was closed. User Volodya Senchak there noted that Angular 8 had stopped using HtmlWebpackPlugin for generating the index.html file. He mentioned that this could be circumvented by setting "index": "" in angular.json, but that this was an imperfect solution.

I have now run into the same issue, which seems to affect more than just FaviconsWebpackPlugin. Without the aforementioned fix, I cannot inject anything in the index.html from our custom-webpack.config.js, including the HtmlWebpackPlugin options title and base.

There must be more Angular 8+ developers using FaviconsWebpackPlugin. I would be very interested to their thoughts on / solutions for the issue, as well as those of @jantimon and other maintainers.

[HansCronau]

@kontrollanten No. As far as I know this issue has not been resolved and was closed by mistake.
We have worked around it by letting FaviconsWebpackPlugin write its output to a secondary dummy index_dummy.html and manually copying the relevant lines to our primary index.html. Downside: this takes the html injection out of the build process. This process thus needs to be repeated manually every time the icons change. Luckily for us this is rare.