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After I build a bundle with ng build --prod --aot I would like to quickly serve it locally. Is there a way to quickly serve the /dist directory locally using @angular/cli?
I tried to cd dist && ng serve but the dist disappears when the ng serve command is run.
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After coding our Angular apps using TypeScript, we use the Angular CLI command to build the app. ng build command compiles the application into an output directory and the build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory.
Quick update : You can run ng test as you run ng serve by configurating your test launcher (usually karma). For example with karma, you can set the property singleRun to false so that it will re-launch the test when you change some files.
ng servelink. Builds and serves your application, rebuilding on file changes.
http-server is what I use, and it works well.
Install:
npm install -g http-server
cd into your dist folder, type http-server, then enter. Or, just do http-server .\dist at the command line after your application build is successful.
Open a browser, and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080
More info: https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server
I use this on all my dev machines for running built ng applications.
Or, was there more than simply seeing if the application runs (smoke test) that you were looking for in this?
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