@angular/router module is required

[pshurygin]

I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but i cannot use angular-hybrid router without installing @angular/router as a dependancy. This results in a pretty large footprint of the router. (ui-router core + ui-router angular + ui-router angularjs + @angular/router). Here is a visualization:

And if I remove @angular/router from dependancy list, i get the following error on build(AOT):

ERROR in @uirouter\angular\lib\uiRouterNgModule.ts(67,16): Error during template compile of 'makeChildProviders'
Could not resolve @angular/router relative to D:/Solomoto/impl/solo/SolomotoWebRole/node_modules/@uirouter/angular/lib/uiRouterNgModule.d.ts..

[chce]

I found this comment by the ui-router developers while reading an issue on Angular's issue tracker:
angular/angular-cli#4541 (comment)

[pshurygin]

Thanks, so that means it's angular devs to blame for that. And there is no progress on that issue whatsoever for already 1.5 years, so I guess we are just supposed to live with that extra 20kb of useless code for our clients.

[chce]

There is a bit of progress on a related issue, but it doesn't really seem like top priority: angular/angular-cli#9343

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