Static files not being served when running app with 'ng serve'

[TylerJBrown192]

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Versions.

$ ng --version
@angular/cli: 1.0.1
node: 6.9.1
os: win32 x64
@angular/common: 4.1.0
@angular/compiler: 4.1.0
@angular/core: 4.1.0
@angular/forms: 4.1.0
@angular/http: 4.1.0
@angular/platform-browser: 4.1.0
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 4.1.0
@angular/router: 4.1.0
@angular/cli: 1.0.1
@angular/compiler-cli: 4.1.0

Repro steps.

1. Add a .txt or .json file anywhere in the project
2. Add another in /src/assets/
3. Run ng serve from the command line in the Angular application
4. Open up the dev console and look for the files in the Sources tab OR set up a service to make a HTTP request to the file path you expect the static file to be at
5. A 404 will occur

The log given by the failure.

N/A

Desired functionality.

Would like to be able to access static files within the Angular application.

Mention any other details that might be useful.

When building out an Angular v2 application (when Angular CLI was still in beta release) I was able to serve static text files inside of my /app directory and get them with Http.get('app/example-dir/test-file.json') from @angular/http

[9034725985]

have you tried --no-aot?

I have a similar bug.

I think it is related to #4806

here is my commit. I deploy to firebase and I have to do --no-aot to get the desired result
betternode/fakenews@7cb097a

I was hoping <img src="assets/1232015064656.jpg" alt="jesus"> would work with --aot true I think this is a bug somewhere

[sumitarora]

Duplicate of #6158

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