Angular Universal & Anguar-CLI minimal starter

This demo is built following the Angular-CLI Wiki guide

We're utilizing packages from the Angular Universal @nguniversal repo, such as ng-module-map-ngfactory-loader to enable Lazy Loading.

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Static or Dynamic

This repo demonstrates the use of 2 different forms of Server Side Rendering.

Static Also known as "prerendering"

• Happens at build time
• Renders your application and replaces the dist index.html with a version rendered at the route /.

Dynamic

• Happens at runtime
• Uses ngExpressEngine to render you application on the fly at the requested url.

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Installation

• npm install or yarn

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Development (Client-side only rendering)

• run npm run start which will start ng serve (project served at the standard: localhost:4200)

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Production

Depending on whether you're publishing dynamic or static prerendering, run the build command, and then serve up your dist folder assets.

NOTE: To deploy your Static site to a static hosting platform you will have to deploy the dist/browser folder, rather than the usual dist

ie: npm run build:dynamic or npm run build:static. All of the files that need to be served will be found within the /dist folder.

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Testing Universal (dynamic or static) builds -Locally-

Dynamic : npm run start:dynamic

Compiles your application and spins up a Node Express to dynamically serve your Universal application on http://localhost:4000.

Static : npm run start:static

• Compiles your application and prerenders your applications files, spinning up a demo http-server so you can view it on http://127.0.0.1:8080