angular2-universal

With the introduction to angular 4 of universal, I can't figure out how to deploy the app successfully to a firebase hosting. I followed the steps here https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/stories-universal-rendering I can't figure out this part of it though: "The bundle produced has a hash in the filename from webpack. When deploying this to a production server, you will need to ensure the correct bundle is required, either by renaming the file or passing the bundle name as an argument to your server." Usually we just use ng build --prod Then firebase deploy the dist directory. With

The maintainers at angular2-universal have not updated their site: Problem 1) typings install node express body-parser serve-static express-serve-static-core mime --ambient typings ERR! deprecated The "ambient" flag is deprecated. Please use "global" instead Problem 2) typings install node express body-parser serve-static express-serve-static-core mime --global typings INFO globaldependencies "express" lists global dependencies on "node" that must be installed manually typings INFO globaldependencies "body-parser" lists global dependencies on "node" that must be installed manually typings ERR!

I am using universal-starter as backbone. When my client starts, it read a token about user info from localStorage. @Injectable() export class UserService { foo() {} bar() {} loadCurrentUser() { const token = localStorage.getItem('token'); // do other things }; } Everything works well, however I got this in the server side (terminal) because of server rendering: EXCEPTION: ReferenceError: localStorage is not defined I got the idea from ng-conf-2016-universal-patterns that using Dependency Injection to solve this. But that demo is really old. Say I have these two files now: main.broswer.ts

Angular2 removes <script> tags automatically from templates to stop people using this functionality as a "poor's man" loader . The issue here is that script tags currently have more uses than just loading code or other script files. There is the possibility that further functionality around <script> tags will be introduced in future as well. One current use is JSON-LD which takes the format <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context":"http://schema.org", "@type":"HealthClub", ... } </script> A commonly suggested work around is to dynamically add script tags to the document via the