Barrels. Did latest RC0 or ng2 final release break them?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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import { BackEndService } from "../../../shared";

fails now, giving infamous [Service1, ?, Service2] error. Now I changed code back to where we were before beta11

import { BackendService } from "../../../shared/backend/backend.service";

and it works.

My serious question would be how often I need to change all of my 500 Components and 30 Services back and forth with barells? Roadmap: RC1 - Barells switched on again. RC2 - Barells switched off, RC3 Barells switched on? Sorry to sound grim, but this situation would drive any Developer mental.

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AFAIK barrels are no longer recommended after the introduction of NgModules in Angular 2. See e.g. this comment on the Angular Gitter chat.

I agree that all the changes in Angular 2 RCs have been a pain and not something you’d normally expect in a release candidate.

On the plus side Angular 2 is now stable and they finally decided to follow semantic versioning like most other projects so no more breaking changes until Angular 3.

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