How to Export styles as css file in Angular 4

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I am new in Angular 4 and I want to export my styles as css file. When I serve or build the project, it creates a style.bundle.js file and add css' as html style element. But I want to export as stylesheet file and load it with link element.

My Angular-cli.json :

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/@angular/cli/lib/config/schema.json",
  "project": {
    "name": "ares"
  },
  "apps": [
    {
      "name":"desktop",
      "root": "src",
      "outDir": "dist/desktop",
      "assets": [
        "assets",
        "favicon.ico",
        "views/desktop"
      ],
      "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/materialize-css/dist/css/materialize.css",
        "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css",
        "assets/desktop/css/styles.scss",
        "views/desktop/trader/first/assets/css/theme.scss"
      ],
      "scripts": [
        "../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
        "../node_modules/hammerjs/hammer.js",
        "../node_modules/materialize-css/dist/js/materialize.js"
      ],
      "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": {}
  }
}

What style are you talking about? assets/desktop/css/styles.scss? Or, anything else? — Gosha_Fighten
– Gosha_Fighten, Commented Oct 2, 2017 at 20:47

Bruno Bruzzano · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-30 17:55:48Z

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When you running ng build or ng serve it always creates a bundle like styles.bundles.js just for sake of saving some time on the dev build. From another hand, if you do ng build --prod it will produce styles.bundle.css.

If you want styles.bundle.css to be produced for your dev build then just add --extract-css flag e.g ng serve --extract-css.

Here is some more details on default flags that might be helpful:

edited May 30, 2018 at 17:55

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2 Comments

Kamuran Sönecek Over a year ago

how can i see css line on chrome dev tools in dev mod :( I only see <style>..</style>

angularconsulting.au Over a year ago

if you run ng serve --extract-css you should be able to see your styles, just go to network tab.

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