Questions on .NET Core 3.1 & Angular SSR spa.UseSpaPrerendering alternative

Question

I created this post to get some insights from the community. A little while ago with the release of .NET Core 3.0 the usage of the well-known and widely used spa.UseSpaPre

Answer 1

I'm struggling with netcore 3.1 and angular too when it comes to deploy the project on azure or anything.. did you find anything? Could you provide your startup file? when I use dotnet publish, package.json is not copied to publish/ClientApp directory so the command used by spa.UseAngularCliServer() fails or it just doesn't find /index.html.

for now, I run my project locally like this:

app.UseSpa(spa =>
  {
    spa.Options.SourcePath = "ClientApp";
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
      spa.UseAngularCliServer(npmScript: "dev:ssr");
    }
  });