How to set environment via `ng serve` in Angular 6
You can try: ng serve --configuration=dev/prod
To build use: ng build --prod --configuration=dev
Hope you are using a different kind of environment.
This answer seems good.
however, it lead me towards an error as it resulted withConfiguration 'xyz' could not be found in project ...
error in build.
It is requierd not only to updated build configurations, but also serve
ones.
So just to leave no confusions:
--env
is not supported inangular 6
--env
got changed into--configuration
||-c
(and is now more powerful)- to manage various envs, in addition to adding new environment file, it is now required to do some changes in
angular.json
file:- add new configuration in the build
{ ... "build": "configurations": ...
property - new build configuration may contain only
fileReplacements
part, (but more options are available) - add new configuration in the serve
{ ... "serve": "configurations": ...
property - new serve configuration shall contain of
browserTarget="your-project-name:build:staging"
- add new configuration in the build
You need to use the new configuration
option (this works for ng build
and ng serve
as well)
ng serve --configuration=local
or
ng serve -c local
If you look at your angular.json
file, you'll see that you have finer control over settings for each configuration (aot, optimizer, environment files,...)
"configurations": {
"production": {
"optimization": true,
"outputHashing": "all",
"sourceMap": false,
"extractCss": true,
"namedChunks": false,
"aot": true,
"extractLicenses": true,
"vendorChunk": false,
"buildOptimizer": true,
"fileReplacements": [
{
"replace": "src/environments/environment.ts",
"with": "src/environments/environment.prod.ts"
}
]
}
}
You can get more info here for managing environment specific configurations.
As pointed in the other response below, if you need to add a new 'environment', you need to add a new configuration to the build task and, depending on your needs, to the serve and test tasks as well.
Adding a new environment
Edit:
To make it clear, file replacements must be specified in the build
section. So if you want to use ng serve
with a specific environment
file (say dev2), you first need to modify the build
section to add a new dev2 configuration
"build": {
"configurations": {
"dev2": {
"fileReplacements": [
{
"replace": "src/environments/environment.ts",
"with": "src/environments/environment.dev2.ts"
}
/* You can add all other options here, such as aot, optimization, ... */
],
"serviceWorker": true
},
Then modify your serve
section to add a new configuration as well, pointing to the dev2 build
configuration you just declared
"serve":
"configurations": {
"dev2": {
"browserTarget": "projectName:build:dev2"
}
Then you can use ng serve -c dev2
, which will use the dev2 config file