npm link src with angular 5

I have symlinks enabled:

"build": {
      "preserveSymlinks": true
    }

but when I try to run against npm link with src, I get this error:

ERROR in ./node_modules/mylibrary/index.ts Module build failed: Error: /Users/sgentile/Workspaces/myproject/node_modules/mylibrary/index.ts is not part of the compilation output. Please check theother error messages for details.

Any ideas?

[sgentile]

For development so you don’t have to recompile after every change. What you described is very time consuming and not very productive

Certainly before preparing for release we link to dist.

On Dec 30, 2017 3:41 AM, “Ante Adamovic” [e-mail] wrote:

Why are you trying to link the src anyway, you’re suppose to link the dist directory. Angular 5 has known issues with compilation so it often doesn’t accept raw TS files from third party libraries. I’ve ran into this problem with my own library which is why I’m checking this one out and it works great, simply run npm run build and then switch to dist directory and run npm link there.

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[anteAdamovic]

Why are you trying to link the src anyway, you’re suppose to link the dist directory. Angular 5 has known issues with compilation so it often doesn’t accept raw TS files from third party libraries. I’ve ran into this problem with my own library which is why I’m checking this one out and it works great, simply run npm run build and then switch to dist directory and run npm link there.