Ngx-chips: AOT builds are failiing because of the ngx-chips dependency... I believe the culprit is the version of angular-cli you are using.

[xtianus79]

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Current behavior

In my case the bug is manifesting because Angular AOT is run via ngtools/webpack which is the sister of angular-cli which you are using. So this is what is happening... Because this dependency
is trying to run its build and AOT upon installing the package i.e. into the dist folder <<< it is running against my webpack config's ngtoosl/webpack installation housing its AOT parameters. thus causing the AOT build to fail

Below I state recreation steps but the issue is definatelty stemming from how you're building the package upon installation which is using AOT parameters from anguar cli.

My first thought is... why place this step on the user installing a package... I get if someone wanted to customize the css or files but having this step run alongside of another person's AOT installation and params should / could be thought out better so that this won't occur.

I stated in another thread here for this package is that AOT ngtools / angular-cli was having issues with one of their dependencies... it was auto incremented through ^ and broke a lot of peoples AOT builds. something with enhanced-resolver... What's insane is that they did a fixed version and have since then reverted back to allowing ^ increments for minor updates.

I would like to work through this with you as my build depends on it.

Expected behavior

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions (if applicable)

Download an Angular quick repo and use ngtools/webpack inside of it... then install your package and you will see the error.

What do you use to build your app?. Please specify the version

Angular version:

ngx-chips version:

Browser: [all | Chrome XX | Firefox XX | IE XX | Safari XX | Mobile Chrome XX | Android X.X Web Browser | iOS XX Safari | iOS XX UIWebView | iOS XX WKWebView ]

[Gbuomprisco]

Hi @xtianus79,
thanks for the detailed investigation. I am not sure how else providing an AOT build but to return to the distributed files, the .metadata files (generated by ngc) and the sources themselves (so that clients know how to bundle their builds).

I'll have a further look during the weekend, but if you stumble on a solution feel free to open a PR

[xtianus79]

@Gbuomprisco can you tell me the build process flow. I tried to fork the repo and use my forked repo as the npm package but it didn't build the dist directory which leads me to believe this is being done on the during my npm installation.

[xtianus79]

@Gbuomprisco also, are you using angular-cli?

[hakalb]

@Gbuomprisco Will this issue be solved in the near future?

[Gbuomprisco]

Sorry - I'll try in the weekend

[hakalb]

Thanks, I appreciate your work with ngx-chips.

[er-ant]

Still appears, any changes? May be you will make it in common angular's module style to provide AoT?

[Gbuomprisco]

Check out the very latest, this has been fixed

[kotmatpockuh]

still appears...