Where is dist/public?

[antonyRoberts]

If I build with npm run dev The program compiles and runs but there is no dist/public folder.

Building with ng build --prod compiles fine but still no idea where dist/public is

[antonyRoberts]

This ends up happening on fix(serve): delete dist on serve and I see that you've referenced this issue, so I'll close

[DavideViolante]

When using npm run dev it execute ng serve. Since this angular/angular-cli#4293 the dist folder is automatically deleted when using ng serve and the files are being loaded from memory. Use ng build to create dist folder, then run the app using this sequence:

1. npm run predev
2. mongod
3. npm start

[antonyRoberts]

Thanks @DavideViolante I found ng build works too, and mongo is already running as a service, would you happen to know how to change port 4200, do we have to eject ng-cli to do it?

[DavideViolante]

You can change the 4200 from .angular-cli.json file (see here https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/angular-cli, find port in page)
You can change the 3000 backend port from app.ts file (remember to change to proxy.conf.json too)