This project was generated with Angular CLI version 6.1.5.
This project is for the Serverless Dubai conference September 2018, it will be used as a practical example for a 20 minutes talk. Lots of things can be improved, but I kept as much as I could for the time given.
Angular 6 is a framework to build Single Page Application for the web, even though now it can be used to make hybrid apps. It uses TypeScript (last supported version 2.9.2).
Angular CLI is a tool to help you kickstart your application by using a variety of commands.
Here are the setup commands I used for this project:
npm install -g @angular/cli
ng new serverless-conf-app
cd serverless-conf-app
ng serve
I then proceed to add a service and a pipe:
ng g service giphy
ng g pipe safe
After writing some custom code, I manage to fix the tests to run:
ng test
ng e2e
Once this is working, we run into the usual problem with SPA: SEO. If you run now a: curl http://localhost:4200 you will see an empty page with some JS. This is where Angular Universal comes into place:
ng add @ng-toolkit/universal
npm run build:prod
npm run server
curl http://localhost:8080
TADA ! We now have the full HTML being rendered.
Beware though if you use object such as Window or localStorage, there is a trick.
I invite you all to follow this project as it offers much more such as: PWA and Serverless.
Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.
Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.
Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.
Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.
To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.