Aspnetcore-angular-universal: Add option to turn off SSR(Server Side Rendering)

[skorunka]

Add an option to turn off rather than force user to delete/comment things.

[hheexx]

Also maybe disable SSR for development?
It would speed up webpack compilation twice.

We just did that yesterday.
No problems for now.

[skorunka]

Hi, could you share your code please? And BTW: How do you bundle CSS and include it in HTML master page when you turn off SSR?

[MarkPieszak]

This would be a nice idea actually, make it a little easier for people to Opt-in/out of it.

I think by default it might almost be easier to have it Off, as I don't think most apps need the benefits of SSRendering. Let me see what I can come up with! Good idea @skorunka

[TimHarker]

Especially since things like Material 2 don't support it (at this point) - I've turned mine off 👍 .

[skorunka]

@TimHarker When you turn off SSR, how do you bundle CSS and insert it into page? I had to do this: https://github.com/MarkPieszak/aspnetcore-angular2-universal/issues/161#issuecomment-295829586

[vicver82]

@TimHarker Could please kindly share how you totally disabled SSR and cleaned both your Angular and .NET server code? Thanks!

[MarkPieszak]

You can just comment out the code in HomeController, make it do nothing but return View(); for the Index Route. Return the _index.cshtml file to <app></app> instead of ViewData["SpaHtml"] and that should do it, there might be a few more things, but that'll work I believe. @vicver82

[vicver82]

@MarkPieszak Thank you Mark!
I've done that, as per your instructions in the Readme file. I'm currently trying to clean all ng-side files, and to get aot working again.

[isaacrlevin]

@vicver82 this issue good to close?

[vicver82]

Yes, thank you.

[MarkPieszak]

Yeah we can close it for now, eventually we can work on some type of flag that handles turning it on/off for us.