Webpack update breaks use of dynamic template URLs

[Phatsuo]

1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

Win10 x64

1. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run
   in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack
node: 5.10.1
os: win32 x64

1. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you
   do on your code? etc.

a) Generate default project.
b) In app.component.ts, change the templateUrl to '/templates/app'
c) run ng build

1. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
   more information.

ERROR in ./src/app/app.component.ts
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve './/templates/app' in 'D:\Dev\Junk\WebApplication19-Core-And-Angular-CLI\src\WebApplication19-Core-And-Angular-CLI\src\app'
@ ./src/app/app.component.ts 18:22-49
@ ./src/app/index.ts
@ ./src/main.ts
@ multi main

1. Mention any other details that might be useful.

This worked fine in previous CLI versions using systemjs.

I believe this is because something (maybe angular2-webpack-starter or similar) is attempting to inline the template. This will not work because the template is dynamically generated on the server.

This could potentially be fixed by editing the webpack.config - but the Angular CLI does not allow that.

Perhaps instead of an error, this could be a warning, and it could leave the templateUrl setting as-is.

[kylecordes]

I realize this is not so helpful for the problem you're describing, but it might be helpful as background information. I have been following Angular 2 for over a year now, and lost track of exactly where I read what. But I'm confident there's been discussion various places including in the issue tracker, from core A2 developers, indicating that they generally think of templates as a build time concern, not a runtime concern; that the current "platform dynamic" we are all using is primarily for development use, a placeholder until the template pre-compiler is ready. In other words, the thing you are doing, dynamic templates, may well turn out to be an edge case far from the target of mainline Angular 2 practice and tools. Perhaps will turn out that this is no longer correct, and that they do intend after all to encourage template compilation is a first-class production deployment path.

[filipesilva]

The concern that @kylecordes raised is very relevant - your setup will not work in precompilation.

But it's true that it's your problem if it doesn't, and the build system shouldn't stop you from putting whatever weird thing you want in templateUrl. I can't say this scenario is very high priority though.

We use https://github.com/TheLarkInn/angular2-template-loader to do this conversion. @TheLarkInn is there a reasonable way of not changing anything in case the template doesn't exist?

[TheLarkInn]

Does ng2 even support dynamic template urls to begin with? @filipesilva

[filipesilva]

In Just-in-Time compilation it does, because when the app tries to load the template it's already there. This isn't something we can support from within the CLI unfortunately, we do assume that these templates exist.

[coorter]

So is there any way to disable this strict templateUrl checking? I use angular with dynamic razor views (asp.net mvc) and it worked fine before, now I'd like to use webpack and it looks impossible, doesn't it?

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