Is it possible to move location of ClientApp folder (or even change it's name)?

[johnpankowicz]

I submitted this issue first as an AspNetCore issue. But I was told that I should submit it here instead.

I want to move the ClientApp folder up one level, so that it is not inside of the .Net folder structure. (many reasons for this). But if I do I can no longer set breakpoints in the ClientApp from within Visual Studio (2019). In fact, this happens even if I just change the name of "ClientApp". I do the following:

Create an app with "dotnet new angular"

Change name of the ClientApp folder to XClientApp

Make these changes in startup.cs:

 configuration.RootPath = "XClientApp/dist";
 ...
 spa.Options.SourcePath = "XClientApp";

Make this change in the project file:

 <SpaRoot>XClientApp\</SpaRoot>

The program runs if I press F5. But if I try to set a breakpoint via VS2019 in the Typescript code, I only see an open circle by the break point and the error "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. Breakpoint set but not yet bound."

But if I:

1. run the app with F5
2. press F12 in the Chrome Browser
3. set a break point using the Chrome Dev Tools
4. hit & clear the break point

Then breakpoints will start working in Visual Studio. But I don't want to go through this each time to get breakpoints working.

How can I change the name of ClientApp (and also change it's location) and still have breakpoints work?

I an using Visual Studio Pro 2019 Preview Version 16.3.0 Preview 2.0 and .Net Core 3.0.100-preview8-013656.

I already asked this question on stackoverflow.

[SincGBA]

Are there any news about this? I encounter this problem in an angular workspace. My folder structure is Workspace/project/projName/src instead of ClientApp/src so i need to completly rework the folderstructure