`ng serve` removes the `dist` folder, don't see why developing should remove my production build

[insidewhy]

OS?

Linux (arch)

Versions.

1.0.0-beta30

Repro steps.

1. ng build --prod
2. ng serve
3. ng serve has now removed my dist folder.

[grizzm0]

This was done on purpose.

See: #4293, #4366

[insidewhy]

Seems to me like documenting behaviour would have been a better approach to #4293 than deleting the folder. Looks to me like you're treating the symptoms rather than the disease with the current approach and this philosophy concerns me. There's also an element of "capitulating to ignorance" about the approach you took which also niggles at me ;)

In my instance I was building some server code into dist. Perhaps I should have built it into a folder under /dev/shm but the simplest quick solution seemed to be to put the code alongside the client output. angular-cli deleting my code was an inconvenience.

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