Angular6 What's browserTarget

Here is a standard angular.json file

"projects": { "myApp": { [...] "architect": { "build": { [...] "configurations": { "production": { [...] }, "debug": { [...] } } }, "serve": { [...] "configurations": { "production": { "browserTarget": "myApp:build:production" }, "debug": { "browserTarget": "myApp:build:debug" } } } } } }

I don't understand what's the browserTarget setting for ? I couldn't find any documentation, it seems that I'd have to dig into @angular-devkit ...

1 Answer

browserTarget is a setting that maps a configuration to a build target e.g. build, serve, test, lint. It's kind of a funny name. To be honest I don't know why it's called browserTarget instead of just target.

Further reading here at the angular.io docs.