This is going to be a very small blog post, but indeed it will be helpful for lot of Angular developers out there. One of the recent question i answered on Stack overflow on how to reverse engineer an Angular application.
The question was ” I built an Angular app using ng build. I have the built version but I accidently deleted my code. Is there any way I can get my code back from my build version? “
Even though the correct answer is NO, but you will be able to retrieve 80% of the code with the following steps.
Step 1: Deploy the app code in the Dist folder
Step 2: Use Google Chrome Developer tools (F12).
Step 3: Under debugger tab, look under Webpack -> Src you will see all typescript files. you can copy and past the code provided which would help you to at least build the structure of your application.
Everything is going to be 200 OK 