Angular support

[fgirardey]

Hey folks,

I'm heavily considering moving our entire Nx monorepo to varlock but i'm wondering if Angular is supported.

Recently Angular has moved to vite but the vite.config.ts file is not exposed and customizable.

Is there folks out there that have successfully integrated it?

[theoephraim]

Do they let you still inject vite plugins? Astro does something like that.

I’d be happy to help you dig into it and try to get things working.

[fgirardey]

Unfortunately no, and that's actually a big pain with Angular, they avoid to open their build pipeline to customizations.

I've just found out that in fact they only use Vite as a pure web server, the build and the bundling is handled by ESBuild: angular/angular-cli#27695 (comment)

My current technique for environment variables are a simple env.template.js with ${xxx} placeholders that are subsituted at the container start time because we follow the "build once, run anywhere" principles.

I wonder if Varlock support this paradigm 🤔