Angular-cli: additional build tasks

[dimitriy-k]

I am using the latest angular-cli ("1.0.0-beta.15") and cannot find any information how to add additional tasks to build process.

What I try to achieve:

• I am using ng2-translate and it requires 1 file with all translations
• I have generic components
• every component should have his own translation file, for example COMPONENT_NAME-local.json
• I need a build task which will find all *-local.json files, merge them all, and generate en.json file which will be used by ng2-translate

Where can I add executable build tasks? + a watcher for *-local.json would be nice

[filipesilva]

We do not have this feature at the moment, but are planning an addon system that would allow users to create addons to do such things.

[darkmyst]

It's been more than half a year since this was discussed here -- has there been any notable movement on this subject? I have exactly the same scenario as @dimitriy-k

[filipesilva]

@darkmyst it's something that we're looking for v2+, but not part of the planned features for v1.x.

[l770943527]

hi, I am new to angular2 and I have encountered the similar scenatios: need to scan the local files and then generate some log files , I have searched a lot about 'how to custom angular-cli tasks', some answers refer to 'use the same way as the ember-cli does', i haven't used 'ember-cli' before, can anyone provide some more details on 'use ember-cli way to extend angular-cli tasks'? Thanks a lot! :)

[dimitriy-k]

@l770943527 you can try ng eject and customize your webpack

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/eject

[SalsabeelNasr]

the feature is definitively needed

[dsenko]

it's annoying how angular-cli is limited and unextendable
we are working on big project supporting most of backend and frontend frameworks and only angular2-6 can't be supported because of ng-serve limitations such as adding own tasks to handle output files in-fly
what the hell

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