Exclude port number in URL - Angular2

Question

I want to exclude the port number for my angular2 application in the URI, so far its http://localhost:3000/ instead of just being http://localhost/. I am using angular2 with webpack2. How would I go about doing this on development in dev-server, would I use a proxy?

-G

Answer 1

A url like http://localhost actually has a port number, it's the default http port of 80. So you could configure your Angular app to simply use port 80 instead of port 3000.

Most projects use ports other than 80 because most web developers have a system-wide webserver that's already running on port 80 (Apache, nginx, etc).