How to serve an angular2 app in a node.js server

Question

I\'m building a web app using Angular2, to create the project I\'m using Angular2 CLI webpack. Angular2 app uses other external packages also (Eg: Firebase). In addition to

Answer 1

Follow the Express node server with Angular 2 CLI document to serve your application through Node.js server. The application is being served Through Node.js and a REST full API. You can design this REST as your requirements.

E.g.

Serve application with http://localhost:5000/app

app.get('/app/*', function(req, res) {
    res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'))
});

or

Serve data from REST calls with http://localhost:5000/rest/contacts

app.get('/rest/user', function(req, res) {
    res.send({
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Jhon",
    })
});