Is it a common choice to deploy an AngularJS app to a vanilla Apache HTTP server?

Question

I was curious about what kind of server an AngularJS app was usually deployed into, and Google didn\'t give a satisfactory answer. In particular, it looks to me that an AngularJ

Answer 1

I run nginx to serve static AngularJS content. The backend functionality is served by NodeJS server that provides all necessary dynamic content and answers REST requests from the client-side. Nginx routes the dynamic queries to NodeJS, and serves static content directly. Both, client-side and server-side logic is written in the same language (JavaScript, or CoffeeScript).

The biggest benefit of this is that we can load-balance client-side static content and backend content separately. It depends on the size of your app and demands that it makes regarding the dynamic content access.

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