I am having trouble loading a PDF file into my Angular app, which is running on the webpack dev server. I am using the HTML <object> tag with the data attribute to achieve this.
The issue arises because the PDF path is generated dynamically at runtime and it's an absolute path like C:\test.pdf.
Instead of displaying the PDF in the UI, the console displays the error message -
Not allowed to load local resource: file:///C:/test.jpegInterestingly, the production build of the app, which runs as static HTML rather than on a hosting server, works fine. Relative paths also work without any issues.
How can I successfully load the PDF file?
webpack.common.js
var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
const path = require('path');
const rootDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
module.exports = {
resolve: {
extensions: ['.js', '.ts'],
modules: [rootDir, path.join(rootDir, "node_modules")]
},
module: {
rules: [
{
test: /\.html$/,
loader: 'html-loader'
},
{
test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|ico)$/,
loader: 'file-loader?name=assets/[name].[ext]'
},
{
test: /\.(scss|css)$/,
use: [
{ loader: "style-loader" },
{ loader: "css-loader" },
{ loader: "sass-loader",
options: {
includePaths: ["node_modules/"]
}
}
]
}
]},
plugins: [
new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin({
name: ['app', 'vendor', 'polyfills']
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
template: 'src/index.html'
}),
new webpack.ContextReplacementPlugin(
/angular(\\|\/)core(\\|\/)@angular/,
path.resolve(__dirname, '../src')
)
]
};webpack.dev.js
var webpackMerge = require('webpack-merge');
var ExtractTextPlugin = require('extract-text-webpack-plugin');
var commonConfig = require('./webpack.common.js');
const path = require('path');
const rootDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
commonConfig.entry = {
'polyfills': './src/polyfills.ts',
'vendor': './src/vendor.ts',
'app': './src/main.ts'
};
commonConfig.module.rules.unshift({
test: /\.ts$/,
loaders: ['awesome-typescript-loader', 'angular2-template-loader', 'angular-router-loader']
});
module.exports = webpackMerge(commonConfig, {
devtool: 'cheap-module-eval-source-map',
output: {
path: path.resolve(rootDir, 'dist'),
publicPath: 'http://localhost:8080/',
filename: '[name].js',
chunkFilename: '[name].chunk.js'
},
plugins: [
new ExtractTextPlugin('[name].css')
],
devServer: {
historyApiFallback: true,
stats: 'minimal'
}
});