Chain-to loader for webpack that inlines all html and style's in angular2 components.
Install the webpack loader from npm.
npm install angular2-template-loader --save-dev
Chain the angular2-template-loader
to your currently used typescript loader.
loaders: ['awesome-typescript-loader', 'angular2-template-loader'],
To be able to use the template loader you must have a loader registered, which can handle .html
and .css
files.
The most recommended loader is
raw-loader
In some cases the webpack compilation will fail due to unknown require
statements in the source.
This is caused by the way the template loader works.
The Typescript transpiler doesn't have any typings for the
require
method, which was generated by the loader.
We recommend the installation of type defintions, which contain a declaration of the require
method.
Here is an example markup of the webpack.config.js
, which chains the angular2-template-loader
to the tsloader
module: {
loaders: [
{
test: /\.ts$/,
loaders: ['awesome-typescript-loader', 'angular2-template-loader'],
exclude: [/\.(spec|e2e)\.ts$/]
},
{
test: /\.(html|css)$/,
loader: 'raw-loader'
}
]
}
When using awesome-typescript-loader
to load your typescript files you have to set the useWebpackText
property to true
.
Otherwise the angular2-template-loader
is not able to chain into it.
Here is an example markup (tsconfig.json
)
{
"compilerOptions": {
...
},
"awesomeTypescriptLoaderOptions": {
...
"useWebpackText": true // Allows other loaders to be chained to awesome-typescript-loader.
},
}
The angular2-template-loader
searches for templateUrl
and styleUrls
declarations inside of the Angular 2 Component metadata and replaces the paths with the corresponding require
statement.
The generated require
statements will be handled by the given loader for .html
and .js
files.