angular-heroku

This node application prepares an Angular application to be able to be used on the Heroku environment.

Assumptions

It is assumed your package already has

npm install @angular/cli@latest @angular/compiler-cli --save-dev

What this application does

• Copies @angular/cli and @angular/compiler-cli from devDependencies to dependencies

• Adds "postinstall": "ng build --aot -prod" to scripts

• Adds Node and NPM engines

  "engines":{
        "node":"11.9.0", 
        "npm":"6.11.3"
  };
  

• Copies "typescript" from devDependencies to dependencies

• Install install [email protected]

• Install Express server with npm install express path --save

• Creates the server.js file with the correct dist directory

• Change the "start" command to node server.js

References

• https://medium.com/@hellotunmbi/how-to-deploy-angular-application-to-heroku-1d56e09c5147