A demo on how to get angular-cli 1.0.4 to work with pug without to mess with the webpack config or eject.

After searching a bit about how to work with .pug and .jade files with Angular4, I only found articles that get it to work by ejecting the configuration to webpack with ng eject.

Then by reading this issue I figured out how to get -pug files to work without ejecting the configuration.

You must install pug and pug-loader packages:

    npm install --save-dev pug pug-loader

Then you have to load the .pug file to the template component metadata as a string, throught the pug-loader. A call to require is needed, so you must to declare it too:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
declare var require: any;
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: require('pug-loader!./app.component.pug')(),
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
}

Then you can use app.component.pug (or with .jade extension ) as html. It will support angular structural directives, inner components etc.