Angular-CLI does not accept cdn's in .angular-cli.json

Question

How to make angular-cli understand that whenever we are adding any CDN (Deployed Url) of any Styles or Scripts . It should recognize that!

So far we need to add cdn's to index.html , as adding them to .angular-cli.json has no effect!

Is there any work around?

Answer 1

the official CLI docs states:

these(referring to styles and scripts) will be loaded exactly as if you had added them in a tag inside index.html

so why do you want to add CDN link to your .angular-cli.json . Adding styles and script files to the CLI config from CDN is not supported as the default behavior will fetch a local path but again no difference whatsoever in here between adding them to the index.html and .angular-cli.json as stated in the docs.

Answer 2

I was searching regarding this issue, Rather then i found issues filed in Git in the Angular-CLI,

Someone may want to read CDN Styles/ Scripts in .angular-cli.json configuration and also this deploying with libraries linked to cdn in system-config.js .

It clearly states they are not planning to implement this feature, So therefore this feature itself is not present with Angular-Cli.

Hope this helps to other queries !