[IOS] [Angular] [PWA] Not working when "public" folder is built with (ng build --prod)

[Kenji94]

Hi everyone!

I have an angular project with PWA and I added Capacitor to it.
On Xcode when runnning on a simulator device, I saw that on the screen, it was the "public/index.html" that was displayed.
This "public" folder corresponds to the folder "dist" on angular, I think it's generated everytime I run the app on a device?

On angular, to generate the "dist" folder, I run "ng build --configuration=prod".
The arg "prod" is to minify & uglify the code for security & performance measure, the "public" folder files are minified & uglified.

Running on IOS simulator with the "ng build --configuration=prod" "public" folder is not working.
But If I replace the "public" folder by the one I get by running "ng build" (without the "prod" arg), the app is running on the simulator!
Could you please help me fellow coders?

[jcesarmobile]

public folder is for the native projects only, Capacitor CLI copies whatever is your build folder to public folders in the native projects when you run npx cap copy or npx cap sync.

For PWA you don't have to do anything, your build folder is what you have to run/load, you don't have to create a public folder.