Why are the path prefix needed with NG CLI?

[Vad1mo]

Is not very clear to me why do the references in @Components need since 0.8.0 the local path prefix ./ like in in templateUrl: './app.component.html'. As I see it it only affects the NG CLI Branch.

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[Shijir]

Yes, Angular-CLI used to work fine with specifying just file names in the style or templateUrls properties. But one of their recent changes introduced the following error: Module not found: ... if you don't prepend ./. I think they are fixing the issue in angular/angular-cli#3838 so it will be more flexible meaning you can use both the old and new ways of specifying the component-relative files. For example, both of them will be allowed templateUrl: './app.component.html' and templateUrl: 'app.component.html'