webpack - How to serve an Angular 2 dist folder index.html

Question

I'm using this angular 4 seed app: https://github.com/2sic/app-tutorial-angular4-hello-dnn

It uses webpack and works fine.

It only seems to serve the dev files and not the dist/ folder.

I want to ng serve the dist folder.

Not sure the command to do this or if I need to install a lite server or something.

I run this command to create the dist folder (which works fine):

g build --prod --aot --output-hashing=none

Now I want to run this build in the browser.

Answer 1

You can use http-server for doing so. First of all generate a build using the command ng build --prod --aot --output-hashing=none. This will create a dist folder in your directory structure.

After this, run http-server ./dist, which will start serving your project from dist folder.

Make sure you have installed http-server globally using

npm install http-server -g

For reference, see https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server