ng eject not available at Angular 6.0.0

[andygup]

This is currently an undocumented breaking change for those migrating from 5 to 6, ng eject is temporarily disabled at v6.0.0.

Versions

Angular CLI: 6.0.0
Node: 9.11.1
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 6.0.0
... animations, cli, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                           Version
-----------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect         0.6.0
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.6.0
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.6.0
@angular-devkit/core              0.6.0
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.6.0
@ngtools/webpack                  6.0.0
@schematics/angular               0.6.0
@schematics/update                0.6.0
rxjs                              6.1.0
typescript                        2.7.2
webpack                           4.6.0

Repro steps

• Try running ng eject

Observed behavior

Running ng eject resulted in the following message:

The 'eject' command has been temporarily disabled, as it is not yet compatible with the new
angular.json format. The new configuration format provides further flexibility to modify the
configuration of your workspace without ejecting. Ejection will be re-enabled in a future
release of the CLI.

If you need to eject today, use CLI 1.7 to eject your project.

Reference: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/master/packages/angular/cli/commands/eject.ts

Desired behavior

I wasn't aware of this issue until after I upgraded, note that I did read the release notes. Since ng eject has been removed for now, I expected supporting documentation:

• Provide information on this in the README as a breaking change. This would help to let folks know about this issue before they attempt to migrate.

• Provide guidance in the wiki: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki.

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Possibly related to another issue #10593

[hansl]

Seems like we're missing an issue for eject, so keeping this one open.

[tinganho]

I think it would still be good to be able to eject. We want to follow whatever webpack convention that the default angular-cli uses, without really opting into angular-cli, because it is too opinionated and unflexible.

If there is no eject command maybe provide some info on the kinds of webpack plugins Angular uses.

[raffaeler]

This basically means that it's not possible to use angular 6 with native plugins (which require a specific webpack loader) ... too bad :(

[Fabyao]

@tinganho I agree with you, the CLI is unflexible . This have been discussed here #1656. @hansl locked the conversation which I think goes against community driven projects. @hansl would you reconsider re-opening the conversation so that the community can build/find/discuss CLI alternative? I personally use https://github.com/gdi2290/angular-starter which is CLI free.