Question: Is it possible to make template urls relative?

[tandrewnichols]

It's not clear to me from the docs how to do this (other than a custom function for transformUrl). I was very surprised this isn't the default, as that is the default for the grunt version of this plugin (I'm in the process of migrating some code from grunt to gulp).

Specifically, I would've expected something like:

$templateCache.put('template/foo.html', 'content')

but instead I'm getting

$templateCache.put('/template/foo.html', 'content')

[akash-pal]

This issue is not there in gulp 3.9.1
From gulp 4.0.0 this is an issue

[dmellstrom]

This is because gulp 4 uses vinyl 2.0 which normalizes internal path records, breaking the url building logic. Here is the workaround I am using. I'm working on a PR to address this.

      transformUrl: function(url) {
        // Remove leading slash which occurs in gulp 4
        return url.replace(/^\/+/g, '');
      }

[simonua]

Reopening due to breaking change with Gulp 3 after fixing this for Gulp 4 in 2.2.4. The code has since been reverted and 2.2.5 was published to reestablish status quo prior to this fix.

[adamreisnz]

The transformUrl solution does the job for now

[dmellstrom]

I'm working on getting access to a Mac so I can replicate and address the regression with 2.2.4 and find an alternative solution. In the meantime, we have transformUrl

[betorobson]

the first attempt workaround works find on unix base system however, my team mate here is running on Windows so guess what?
Windows slash is diferente kkkk.

So here my workaround update:

				transformUrl: function(url) {
					// Remove leading slash which occurs in gulp 4
					// https://github.com/miickel/gulp-angular-templatecache/issues/153
					return url.replace(/^(\\|\/)+/g, '');
				}

[simonua]

Depending on how this issue progresses, it might be worthwhile expanding the Readme for specific gulp and OS combinations. What are your thoughts?