Console error: Unable to load chart.js

[willysoria-idtnet]

Reproduction of the problem
Install ng2-charts over angular 7 following the official steps document.
After install you will notice the angular.json file has the following scrips:

"scripts": [
              "node_modules/hammerjs/hammer.min.js",
              "node_modules/chart.js/src/chart.js"
            ],

This causes the following console error:
Unable to load chart.js

After a lot of time reading I found a fix for this, I manually changed the angular.json file to use this:

"node_modules/chart.js/dist/Chart.bundle.min.js"

Is there a way to avoid doing this manually? Thank you for your time.

[miller45]

@willysoria-idtnet the documentation (Readme.md) says: node_modules/chart.js/src/chart.js but you have deleted the 't' (char.js whithout a t'). But anyway this didn´t work for me...i had to change it to node_modules/chart.js/dist/chart.js (dist instead of src).

[willysoria-idtnet]

@willysoria-idtnet the documentation (Readme.md) says: node_modules/chart.js/src/chart.js but you have deleted the 't' (char.js whithout a t'). But anyway this didn´t work for me...i had to change it to node_modules/chart.js/dist/chart.js (dist instead of src).

Yeah, you are totally right, fixed the typo in the main question, thank you!

[miller45]

Is there a way to avoid doing this manually? Thank you for your time

(Simplified answer)
the "node_modules/chart.js/src/chart.js" is necessary because chart.js does not "support" typescript.
And chart.js is not provided by ng2-charts developers. (but is the foundation of ng2-charts). So "they" can do "nothing" to change this.

[willysoria-idtnet]

Got it thanks, but when I install unsing npm there is added this "node_modules/chart.js/src/chart.js" library, and this gives console errores, but if you change manually to use dist folder instead the error disapear, so I was wondering if ther can change the default src folder to use dist instead.