Universal: Should we have ng add @angular/universal similar to @angular/pwa?

[matthewharwood]

I'm submitting a ...

- [x] feature request

For support of ng add @angular/universal schematic.

It would be great to get the boilerplate out of the box and support for features like lazy-loading and prerendering w/o minimal effort.

What modules are related to this Issue?

- [x] common
- [x] express-engine
- [x] module-map-ngfactory-loader
- [x] Prerender

Current behavior?

I would like to have a ng add @angular/universal schematic

ng new morningharwood --routing
ng generate universal --client-project morningharwood
ng generate app-shell  --route=app-shell-path --client-project=morningharwood
ng add @angular/pwa --project morningharwood
ng build --prod

Expected behavior?

ng new morningharwood --routing
ng add @angular/universal --prerender --express --project morningharwood
ng add @angular/pwa --project morningharwood
ng build --prod

From this, we could get the canonical files needed to do basic universal prerendering of an angular cli project.

Other information (optional)

it would be amazing if this could work with nx too (but we'll prob have to talk to them)!

[Toxicable]

Yup that's we we mean by https://github.com/angular/universal/issues/968
At this stage we're planning on doing one for the Express engine, from there we'll look at doing the others.
The idea is that we wouldn't need the universal-starter anymore with the right schematics in place

[maciejtreder]

I already implemented the 'first beta' of that here: https://github.com/maciejtreder/ng-toolkit/tree/master/schematics/universal

Any help is more then welcome :)

[CaerusKaru]

The first draft of the Express Engine schematic is in #1051 and can be tracked there

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