I am creating a component library with the Angular CLI (v7.x) and am having trouble figuring out how I get 3rd party font assets needed for css rules to be included in my dist folder generated by ng-packagr.
Due to ng-packagr not supporting scss bundling as per this issue, I am using scss-bundle in a post build task to perform the bundling for me and to put the final bundled scss file into my dist folder.
However, some of the css rules such as font declarations include url references to relative font folders, and these I don't yet have being included in my dist folder.
So for example, in my angular library application I have styles.scss file which contains an entry to import an icon stylesheet:
@import "~primeicons/primeicons.css";
But there is a relative fonts folder where these primeicons live in my node_modules folder which are used for the css.
One approach is I could write a further post build step to bundle these and put them into a fonts folder alongside my concatenated scss file in my dist folder so they can be resolved.
I wondered if there was a smarter way, or some built in way either with ng-packager or angular-cli when building my library to do this?
Update
So I tried the approach of having a fonts
folder in my library project root (actually under an assets folder) and copy this to the root of my dist
folder after I build my library.
And in my playground app where I try to use the packaged styles in my actual lib I have this:
my-lib-playground/src/styles.scss
@import "../../../dist/my-lib/styles";
But when trying to build my playground app with the CLI, I get:
ERROR in ./src/styles.scss (/Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/node_modules/@angular-devkit/build-angular/src/angular-cli-files/plugins/raw-css-loader.js!/Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/node_modules/postcss-loader/src??embedded!/Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/node_modules/sass-loader/lib/loader.js??ref--14-3!./src/styles.scss)
Module Error (from /Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/node_modules/postcss-loader/src/index.js):
(Emitted value instead of an instance of Error) CssSyntaxError: /Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/dist/my-lib-playground/styles.scss:609:56: Can't resolve './fonts/open-sans-v15-latin-700.eot' in '/Users/someone/Documents/Github/my-lib-playground/projects/my-lib-playground/src'
So my actual question:
How do I get my consuming 'playground' application to include\resolve the font files correctly when building with the cli? These are obviously trying to be resolved relative to my playground app currently. Whats the correct solution here? Or have I done something(s) totally wrong?
Another Way
Make primeng
a peerDependency
of my library and leave it the responsibility of the developer to add primeng
to their app and include the relevant style in the angular.json
as per the suggested answer from Daniel below. Is this the right way, only way?
You should add primeicons
as a peerDependency
and then in the other project you should add in the angular.json
the styles configuration.
"styles": [
"node_modules/primeicons/primeicons.css",
],
After that you already have it imported so it doesn't need the import
from my-lib-playground/src/styles.scss
anymore.
PrimeNG has that example on the readme of the github. https://github.com/primefaces/primeng