Serving and testing a bundle after ng build

Question

After I build a bundle with ng build --prod --aot I would like to quickly serve it locally. Is there a way to quickly serve the /dist directory locally

Answer 1

http-server is what I use, and it works well.

Install:

npm install -g http-server

cd into your dist folder, type http-server, then enter. Or, just do http-server .\dist at the command line after your application build is successful.

Open a browser, and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080

More info: https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server

I use this on all my dev machines for running built ng applications.

Or, was there more than simply seeing if the application runs (smoke test) that you were looking for in this?