Routing an Angular 2 app with Web API

Question

I have an Angular 2 application created with Angular CLI. This has to call a .NET 4.6 Web API. The route setup of this is driving me nuts.

For Angular, the default folde

Answer 1

I just couldn't get Dmitriy's answer to work for me, but he did put me on the right track.

I needed two rules: One to serve the Angular app from the root while maintaining the Web API /api/ routing, and another to serve the default document.

Here they are: