How to import CSS from node_modules in webpack angular2 app

Question

Let\'s say that we start with the following starter pack: https://github.com/angularclass/angular2-webpack-starter

After npm install and npm run start

Answer 1

So here is a way to import various CSS files using the angular-cli which I find the most convenient.

Basically, you can refer to the CSS files (order is important if you will be overriding them) in the config and angular-cli will take care of the rest. For instance, you might want to include a couple of styles from node-modules, which can be done as follows:

"styles": [
    "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css",
    "../node_modules/primeng/resources/primeng.min.css",
    "styles.css"
  ]

A sample full-config might look like this:

.angular-cli.json

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/@angular/cli/lib/config/schema.json",
  "project": {
    "name": "my-angular-app"
  },
  "apps": [
    {
      "root": "src",
      "outDir": "dist",
      "assets": [
        "assets",
        "favicon.ico"
      ],
      "index": "index.html",
      "main": "main.ts",
      "polyfills": "polyfills.ts",
      "test": "test.ts",
      "tsconfig": "tsconfig.app.json",
      "testTsconfig": "tsconfig.spec.json",
      "prefix": "app",
      "styles": [
        "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css",
        "../node_modules/primeng/resources/primeng.min.css",
        "styles.css"
      ],
      "scripts": [],
      "environmentSource": "environments/environment.ts",
      "environments": {
        "dev": "environments/environment.ts",
        "prod": "environments/environment.prod.ts"
      }
    }
  ],
  "e2e": {
    "protractor": {
      "config": "./protractor.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "lint": [
    {
      "project": "src/tsconfig.app.json",
      "exclude": "**/node_modules/**"
    },
    {
      "project": "src/tsconfig.spec.json",
      "exclude": "**/node_modules/**"
    },
    {
      "project": "e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json",
      "exclude": "**/node_modules/**"
    }
  ],
  "test": {
    "karma": {
      "config": "./karma.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "defaults": {
    "styleExt": "scss",
    "component": {}
  }
}