typescript - Not able to change anything in Angular2 application when i create it using Angular CLI

Question

Using ng serve the project runs in localhost but after changing the code it does not refresh.

Lets say we have the general "App Works!!" in the initial project. However, it doesn't change if I edit inside the application.component.ts the "App works" to "Hello". It still shows App Works!!

what's the problem. Help me out.

Answer 1

This is a bug within the latest @ngtools/webpack package that the angular-cli uses. To fix this you need to manually downgrade the package:

npm uninstall @ngtools/webpack
npm install --save-dev @ngtools/webpack@1.2.4

After a new cli version, you should remove this from your package.json again

For more information check this bug report