Copying assets from node module

[samherrmann]

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OS?

Windows 7

Versions.

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.24
node: 6.9.1
os: win32 x64
@angular/common: 2.4.1
@angular/compiler: 2.4.1
@angular/core: 2.4.1
@angular/forms: 2.4.1
@angular/http: 2.4.1
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.1
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.1
@angular/router: 3.4.1
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.1

Repro steps.

This issue follows the comment made in issue #2837. @filipesilva suggested to copy complex libraries, such as Cesium, into the assets folder. Building on that suggestion, I changed my angular-cli.json file to the following:

...
"assets": [
    "assets",
    "favicon.ico",
    "../node_modules/cesium/Build/Cesium"
 ],
...

With this configuration, I expected to find a Cesium folder within the dist folder when runningng build. That is however not the case. No errors are encountered during the build, but the folder is not copied into dist. When I run tests by adding other folders within src to assets, then that works as expected.

[jsanchezgarcia]

@samherrmann it seems that relative paths are not supported (see #2933). Looking at that issue and at #2837 (comment) it seems that the best way to deal with this is to to manually copy the needed assets into the assets folder

[filipesilva]

@jsanchezgarcia is right. #3555 is tracking the enhancement.

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