Do I need to install Node.js on Production Server to host Angular 2?

Question

I am trying to deploy my 1st Angular 2 app on our live server (Windows 2008R2 IIS 7.5 server)

The MVC part is running fine. I could see the login username and showi

Answer 1

If you have created your application using "AspNetCoreSpaTemplates" in VS2017 then by default it would add "Microsoft.AspNEtCore.SpaServices" to your project, you should see this under NuGet package list (please refer to the attached screenshot).

This "Microsoft.AspNEtCore.SpaServices" package includes "Microsoft.AspNetCore.NodeServices" which has dependency for Node.js on the server.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/client-side/spa-services

Microsoft.AspNEtCore.SpaServices is used for server-side pre-rendering.

If you do not need this, you can uninstall Microsoft.AspNEtCore.SpaServices from Nuget Package Manager option.

After you uninstall it you should get 2 to 3 build errors as the SPA services is referred in "Startup.cs" & "ViewImports.cshtml". Comment or delete those reference and publish your code to server. Now it should work without Node.js on the server.