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Angular CLI SASS options

I'm new to Angular and I'm coming from the Ember community. Trying to use the new Angular-CLI based on Ember-CLI.

I need to know the best way to handle SASS in a new Angular project. I tried using the ember-cli-sass repo to see if it would play along since a number of core components of the Angular-CLI are run off of Ember-CLI modules.

It didn't work but then again not sure if I just misconfigured something.

Also, what is the best way to organize styles in a new Angular project? It would be nice to have the sass file in the same folder as the component.

Solution

  • Angular CLI version 9 (used to create Angular 9 projects) now picks up style from schematics instead of styleext. Use the command like this:
    ng config schematics.@schematics/angular:component.style scss
    and the resulting angular.json shall look like this

    "schematics": {
   "@schematics/angular:component": {
      "style": "scss"
    }
  }

    Other possible solutions & explanations:

    To create a new project with angular CLI with sass support, try this:

    ng new My_New_Project --style=scss

    You can also use --style=sass & if you don't know the difference, read this short & easy article and if you still don't know, just go with scss & keep learning.

    If you have an angular 5 project, use this command to update the config for your project.

    ng set defaults.styleExt scss

    For Latest Versions

    For Angular 6 to set new style on existing project with CLI:

    ng config schematics.@schematics/angular:component.styleext scss

    Or Directly into angular.json:

    "schematics": {
      "@schematics/angular:component": {
      "styleext": "scss"
    }
}