Angular-Express-Typescript-Starter

A simple starter with frontend using Angular 4+ and API server with NodeJS and Express framework. Typescript is configured for both Frontend and API server.

Frontend is created using angular-cli. So we can use all of the angular-cli commands from client folder.

This starter can be used in two different ways:

1. Separate Frontend and API server.
2. Both Frontend and API served through single node server in production.

Installation

• clone this repository
• npm run app-install

Commands

• npm run start: Starts both frontend and API server as separate live reload server. Frontend uses ng serve underneath and API server uses nodemon for live reload.

• npm run build: Creates dist folder in both client and server folders.

• npm run start:prod: Builds the client and server projects and starts it with NODE_ENV=production. This by default sets express.static to client/dist to use this node server to serve frontend also.