angular - Run Angular2 as static app in browser without a server

Question

As I understand the Angular2 concept - it is transpiling TypeScript files to .js files. In principle, it should be possible to compile, package, and then run that Angular2 application as a static application from AWS S3 bucket, GitHub or whatever static source.

If I run Angular2 application on node server (with angular-cli "ng serve" command), it takes 500 MB of RAM on server - it's "Heey, common!" - is it really supposed to be that way! What's the benefit of this framework then against React, for example, which needs only a browser.

I can't seem to find anything useful on serving Angular2 application as a static compiled HTML+JS.

Maybe you can help me understand this, and solve?

Thanks a lot!

Maris

Answer 1

Run the BUILD command to BUNDLE/build

ng build

or for a production build/bundle

ng build --prod

It will build/bundle your app into a distributable app.

When it is finished look in your apps root directory for a dist folder and that will contain everything your app needs to run in outside of the node server, say like a tomcat instance.

Update

Thanks to the comment from @Maris, make sure your file paths are relative to the current directory rather than relative to the root directory.

Simply run this command to change the base href element in your index.html.

ng build --prod --base-href ./