I've installed a new library with npm, so far so good. Now I want to import the css in there to my project, obviously I shouldn't link directly to the node_modules folder. So, is there a simple to do import this to my project? I'm using Angular CLI.
I have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea - I thought about installing gulp/grunt and then require the style there and output it as vendor.css into my project. Is it even possible?
First go to your angular-cli-build.js file and add an entry in the vendorNPMFiles array. This will copy your node_modules files to the /vendor directory during the build. Now you can reference your css in your index.html as /vendor/folder/file.css.
Eg: angular-cli-build.js
/* global require, module */
var Angular2App = require('angular-cli/lib/broccoli/angular2-app');
module.exports = function(defaults) {
return new Angular2App(defaults, {
vendorNpmFiles: [
'systemjs/dist/system-polyfills.js',
'systemjs/dist/system.src.js',
'zone.js/dist/**/*.+(js|js.map)',
'es6-shim/es6-shim.js',
'reflect-metadata/**/*.+(js|js.map)',
'rxjs/**/*.+(js|js.map)',
'@angular/**/*.+(js|js.map)',
'bootstrap/dist/**/*.*',
'lodash/lodash.min.js'
]
});
};
index.html snippet
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vendor/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css">
