Angular-cli: 'includePaths' does not work with LESS

[taras-d]

Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an x)

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- [ ] feature request

Versions.

@angular/cli: 1.2.2
node: 6.11.0
os: linux x64

Repro steps.

1. Create project with less styles ng new [NAME] --style=less
2. Create styles/variables.less directory in src folder
3. Update styles config in .angular-cli.json

"styles": [
    "styles/variables.less"
],
"stylePreprocessorOptions": {
    "includePaths": [
        "styles"
    ]
},

1. Import variables in component styles

@import 'variables';

div {
    color: @text-color;
}

The log given by the failure.

ERROR in ./src/app/app.component.less
Module build failed:

@import 'variables';
^
Can't resolve './variables.less' in '/home/user/Desktop/ng-less/src/app'
      in /home/user/Desktop/ng-less/src/app/app.component.less (line 1, column 0)
 @ ./src/app/app.component.ts 18:17-48
 @ ./src/app/app.module.ts
 @ ./src/main.ts
 @ multi webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:4242 ./src/main.ts

Desired functionality.

includePaths should work like less paths option

Mention any other details that might be useful.

The steps were reproduced with scss styles and it worked correctly

[grizzm0]

It was not included as it was blocked by https://github.com/webpack-contrib/less-loader/pull/75

[taras-d]

Is there any workaround?

It becomes inconveniently to use relative imports in case of deep folder structure
(for example @import '../../../../../variables)

[filipesilva]

This is not a bug but a feature request. Less support was never included in the functionality (https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/pull/4003).

Now that it's possible, I'd like to integrate it. PRs are welcome, but bear in mind it should use the built-in LESS resolver and not the webpack resolver.

[JPeer264]

I could implement it.

[JPeer264]

@filipesilva shortly v1.3.0 was released, but it seems that the feature of #7212 is not inside of this release (I cross-checked it with the output in my local node_modules). Or are the releases not of the latest commit of the master?

[filipesilva]

@JPeer264 your PR was released in v1.4.0-beta.0 and up. We only add features to a version in -beta releases so it did not get into 1.3.

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