When I run ng serve, where are the files generated and stored? I need to troubleshoot why the app works with ng serve but not for production build.
Forgot to mention that I'm using webpack version of angular-cli.
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Dist folder is created n all files used for serve stored there – Mithun Pattankar Aug 31 '16 at 18:42
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Are you using the `@webpack` version of the CLI? – Brocco Aug 31 '16 at 18:43
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@MithunPattankar Dist folder is only created for ng build. I don't see it when I run ng serve. – Sam Aug 31 '16 at 18:44
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@Brocco yes, I'm using webpack version. – Sam Aug 31 '16 at 18:44
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Considering starting a project with Angular-CLI. Did this work out for you? Were you able to debug? – adamdport Apr 18 '17 at 19:27
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With the webpack version the output isn't written to disk. Webpack manages that all in memory and serves it to the browser using the webpack-dev-server.
If you'd like to view the dev output, you will need to run ng build and then look into the dist directory
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1I think running `ng serve` serves some HTML files directly from my project folder because I notice that `ng build` doesn't include those HTML files I need in the dist folder. Those HTML files are my imports for the Polymer components. It works fine with `ng serve`. – Sam Aug 31 '16 at 19:32
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Can I customize `ng serve` command? I mean I want to run some bash commands say `node abc.js` before every `ng serve` is it possible? – Pardeep Jain Aug 08 '19 at 11:59
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can anyone explain which memory? Like there is a tons of memories. Is it RAM? Is it GPU cache? Is it disk memory? If I have 1G Ram memory, how does it manage? Excuse me please, I am this dumb. Help! – Adam Bajger Feb 20 '20 at 21:10
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1@AdamBajger when anyone says "memory" it's often RAM, specially in programming. – Wiley Marques Apr 20 '20 at 12:04
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1@WileyMarques apparently it's virtual address space: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20686868/2063755 – David Klempfner Apr 14 '21 at 22:50