Angular2 + webpack do not deploy robots.txt

Question

I am creating a web site with Angular2@2.1.2. I am using Webpack with default settings (as a dependency).

Here is my package.json

\"dependencies\": {         


        

Answer 1

I made this work with Angular6.

Place your robots.txt in the src folder, the same folder as the favicon.ico.

In your angular.json file

              "assets": [
              "src/favicon.ico",
              "src/assets",
              "src/robots.txt"
            ],

You may need to ng serve again, then point to http://localhost:4200/robots.txt

This will only work if you are not catching all unknown routes (path:'**') in your router module(s).

Answer 2

I wanted my robots.txt to be in my src/assets folder rather than just src. I found that the following being added to my angular.json in the assets array did the trick:

"assets": [
  "src/favicon.ico",
  "src/assets",
  {
    "glob": "robots.txt",
    "input": "src/assets",
    "output": "./"
  }
],

Works in Angular 10 using Angular Universal/SSR.

Answer 3

I have found my solution in this issue: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/1942

robots.txt is in src/ directory
Modify angular-cli.json

"apps": [
{
  "root": "src",
  "outDir": "dist",
  "assets": ["assets", "robots.txt"],
 ....

Use the assets array to declare files you want to be placed in the root of dist/