server.ts

// These are important and needed before anything else
import "zone.js/dist/zone-node";
import "reflect-metadata";

import { enableProdMode } from "@angular/core";

import * as express from "express";
import { join } from "path";

// Faster server renders w/ Prod mode (dev mode never needed)
enableProdMode();

// Express server
const app = express();

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 4000;
const DIST_FOLDER = join(process.cwd(), "dist");

// * NOTE :: leave this as require() since this file is built Dynamically from webpack
const {
    AppServerModuleNgFactory
} = require("./dist/server/main");

// Express Engine
import { ngExpressEngine } from "@nguniversal/express-engine";

app.engine(
    "html",
    ngExpressEngine({
        bootstrap: AppServerModuleNgFactory,
    })
);

app.set("view engine", "html");
app.set("views", join(DIST_FOLDER, "spartacus-bootcamp"));

// TODO: implement data requests securely
app.get("/api/*", (req, res) => {
    res.status(404).send("data requests are not supported");
});

// Server static files from /browser
app.get("*.*", express.static(join(DIST_FOLDER, "spartacus-bootcamp")));

// All regular routes use the Universal engine
app.get("*", (req, res) => {
    res.render("index", { req });
});

// Start up the Node server
app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`Node server listening on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
});