Can't run ng serve when I want an asset to be written to a location outside the project.

[Dani2kn]

Versions

Angular CLI: 1.5.4
Node: 8.9.1
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 5.0.3
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

@angular/cli: 1.5.4
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer: 0.0.33
@angular-devkit/core: 0.0.21
@angular-devkit/schematics: 0.0.37
@ngtools/json-schema: 1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack: 1.8.4
@schematics/angular: 0.1.7
typescript: 2.4.2
webpack: 3.8.1

Repro steps

• Step 1 - in the project folder run command ng new angular-src
• Step 2 - modify the .angular-cli.json

"apps": [
    {
      "root": "src",
      "outDir": "../public",

and

  "assets": [
        {
          "glob": "**/*",
          "input": "./assets/",
          "output": "../public",
          "allowOutsideOutDir": true
        },
        {
          "glob": "favicon.ico",
          "input": "./",
          "output": "../public",
          "allowOutsideOutDir": true
        }

• Step 3 - run ng serve

Observed behavior

D:\Programare\NodeJS\MeanAuthApp\angular-src>ng serve
An asset cannot be written to a location outside the project.

Desired behavior

I want to be able to run ng serve with the location outDir: "../public"

Mention any other details that might be useful (optional)

I want to achieve the same output presented in the beginning of this tutorial linked below. And hope this will help! Many thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrViDpWiNVE&list=PLillGF-RfqbZMNtaOXJQiDebNXjVapWPZ&index=5

[filipesilva]

This issue is a duplicate of #8613, fixed by #8630, which will be in the next release.

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