How to configure angular-cli to create inline sourcemaps?

Question

angular.json only gives the option to turn on/off sourcemap generation but by default it's in separate files.

tsconfig.json gives also the inlineSources option but it's ignored by angular-cli.

Is there a way to tell angular-cli to write the source maps inside the .js?

Answer 1

To whom it may concern, here is the approach I implemented to enable debugging with source maps support on Android devices

• install ngx-build-plus by running npx ng add ngx-build-plus
  This will install the required npm package and update angular.json as required For more details please see https://github.com/manfredsteyer/ngx-build-plus
• create new file build-customization-plugin.js in the project root directory and add the below content in this file

var merge = require('webpack-merge');

exports.default = {
    config: function (cfg) {
        const strategy = merge.strategy({
            'devtool': 'replace',
        });

        return strategy(cfg, {
            devtool: 'inline-source-map'
        });
    }
}

• run ng build --eval-source-map --plugin ~build-customization-plugin.js from the root directory to build the project with source maps to debug on Android devices

This is a better approach then changing angular/cli source as I described in a previous port :)