Angular 2 Universal with Hapi

This project was generated with universal-cli version 1.0.0-alpha.universal.2-2.

What is the difference with the express server?

By default, Angular Universal uses express as node server. However, it is possible to use any other server like Hapi. By the way, the Angular Universal team provides views engines for both express and hapi.

The two main differences between the hapi and the express implementations consist in:

• the hapi dependencies installed in the package.json and which replace the express deps
• the server.ts which initializes the hapi server instead of the express one

The project uses a copy of the hapi-engine made by bisubus. It will be updated to use the official angular2-hapi-engine once this pull request is merged.

Quick start

npm i -g universal-cli
npm i

Development server

Run ung serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

Run ung generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ung generate directive/pipe/service/class.

Build

Run ung build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the -prod flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run ung test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ung e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor. Before running the tests make sure you are serving the app via ung serve.

Deploying to Github Pages

Run ung github-pages:deploy to deploy to Github Pages.

Further help

To get more help on the angular-cli use ung --help or go check out the Angular-CLI README.