What does false do in aot build angular cli - Out of memory issue

Question

What "false" do in ng build --prod --aot false command

I am working on an angular 4 app developed with ng cli, as it is a enterprise solution the app becomes so huge that it takes too much time to serve and build. I even got javascript out of memory issues and the I started using following command to build the app

ng build --prod --aot false

But I am not sure how it works

Answer 1

AOT is by default true for production builds, if you want to deactivate is you can use:

ng build prod --no-aot 

or

ng build prod --aot=false

but using AOT will compile your templates to js before serving them, so the browser will load them very fast