How to include assets from node_modules in angular cli project

Unfortunately, this doesn't exist yet :(. I'm desperately awaiting this feature also. Feel free to track this feature request here for Angular-Cli. Copying assets from node_modules

Updated

See @luvaas response as of Angular 6!

This does now exist!

Fix #3555

To use it, update your .angular-cli.json file like so...

Angular version 2-5:

"assets": [
  "assets",
  { "glob": "**/*", "input": "../node_modules/<external library>/assets/", "output": "./assets/" }
]

Angular version >= 6:

"assets": [
  "src/favicon.ico",
  "src/assets",
  {
    "glob": "**/*",
    "input": "./node_modules/<your-node-module>/<possibly-subfolders>/",
    "output": "./assets/"
  },

Since angular 6 the config has changed slightly. To achieve this now, change the assets property of the respective builder in angular.json (beware, there are at least two relevant builders in the architects build and test!)

"assets": [
  "src/favicon.ico",
  "src/assets",
  {
    "glob": "**/*",
    "input": "./node_modules/<your-node-module>/<possibly-subfolders>",
    "output": "./assets/<possibly-subfolders>"
  },