Angular cli beta.31+ breaks playground

[isaacplmann]

With @angular/cli@1.0.0-beta.31 or @angular/cli@1.0.0-beta.32.3, when you run angular-playground angular-playground.json, you get the following error message:

[ng serve]: Tried to find bootstrap code, but could not. Specify either statically analyzable bootstrap code or pass in an entryModule to the p
lugins options.

Running npm start works just fine.

I reproduced by taking your example-app-angular-cli, updating the @angular/cli version and running npm i && npm run playground.

Thanks.

[jschwarty]

Hi @isaacplmann! We have a note in the Changelog about this issue. Once Angular CLI goes to RC0 they should have the support for multiple apps added and we will update the docs to show how to do that for Playground. This will eliminate the error. But for the time being you will need to stay on 1.0.0-beta.30 or make use of the webpack eject feature. I'd recommend waiting for RC0 though as the webpack eject would just be a temporary fix and one that is not needed once we get multi-app support in Angular CLI.

[isaacplmann]

Thanks for letting me know. It would probably be good to mention this issue in the documentation somewhere too. Or you could just leave this issue open until RC0 drops.

[jschwarty]

I was debating on adding it to the docs site but I think this fix is really close to being available (it has been merged into AngularCLI master already). Hopefully that will be on npm soon and I can update the docs to have the instructions on how to use it with the latest version :)

[isaacplmann]

I'm excited to use angular cli rc.0, but the error still occurs with the latest version. I'm assuming I need to define a separate app with an entry point that references PlaygroundModule instead of AppModule. I'll work in that direction and let you know if I make any progress.

[isaacplmann]

I got it working and then found your angular-cli-rc.0 branch on github. I'm doing the same thing, except I had to add <ap-root></ap-root> in the index.html (or reference a custom index.playground.html with <ap-root>). Are you able to make it work without that step? Or are you handling it in a different way?

[jschwarty]

I just merged that into master and am working on pushing a release out to npm. Here is a link to the example app for angular cli in the code base that shows how to setup the app in the .angular-cli.json file:

https://github.com/SoCreate/angular-playground/blob/master/example-app-angular-cli/.angular-cli.json

I will be updating the docs after that to explain the new approach.

[isaacplmann]

I needed to add <ap-root> to index.html because I wasn't calling initializeSandbox('ng-app') in the main.playground.ts file. Looks good in your demo app, now I just need to get it to work in my real app.

[jschwarty]

Published version 1.3.0
https://github.com/SoCreate/angular-playground/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#130-2017-02-27

[isaacplmann]

Working for me. Closing.