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Marek
Marek

Reputation: 4081

Use a filepath for angular.json configuration

I have few different configurations for different environments and clients in my angular.json file.

My question is, if there is a way to, instead of typing all the configurations inside angular.json, specify just the file path to json file for each specific configuration?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 697

Answers (1)

Drenai
Drenai

Reputation: 12357

An approach for this is to create an npm script that updates the angular.json with the required configurations

"scripts": {
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build",
    "config:angular": "node config-angular.js"

}

// on the command line
npm run config:angular -- --config=client

In your config-angular.js file you'd read the arguments e.g. --config=client - here's a good article to follow for the arguments: Pass arguments from the command line to a Node script

You can then update the angular.json with the contents of an imported client-config.js file (or whatever the configs are names). There's a lot of helper npm modules for reading and writing to and from JS/JSON files

If you're taking this approach it's a good idea to write a unit test for config-angular.js, and also to output a backup of the angular.json file before each update

Upvotes: 1

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