Angular-cli: is ng serve --prod a good choice for deployement ?

[chaouiy]

is ng serve --prod an alternative to expressjs configuration to deploy angular 2 apps ?

[grizzm0]

ng serve uses webpack-dev-server which is a development server and not suited for production.

[chaouiy]

do I need to define my own expressjs configuration file ? and why the flag is called prod if it's not suited for production

[deebloo]

@amineparis you will need to setup your own web server. It can be anything, node, apache etc.

[Brocco]

@amineparis both @grizzm0 & @deebloo are correct, you do not want to use ng serve in production even if you use the --prod flag.

The reason that flag exists is to mimic the compilation steps of a production build in a dev environment locally to ease your development process if you so desire.

Summary: use ng serve for development with or without --prod and use a production ready web server for deployments.

[filipesilva]

Just wanted to add that you can find some deployment information at https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/deployment.html

[ellvtr]

URL changed to https://angular.io/guide/deployment
The link above is broken @filipesilva

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