Setting index.html as default page in asp.net core

Question

How can I get asp.net core to serve an index.html file from inside my wwwroot?

The reason I want to do this is because I an developing an angular 4 app using the ang

Answer 1

Just use this in startup.cs:

app.UseFileServer();

It's shorthand for:

app.UseDefaultFiles();
app.UseStaticFiles();

it avoids issues with having to have those in the correct order (as shown above)

Answer 2

I needed to declare UseDefaultFiles() before UseStaticFiles().

app.UseDefaultFiles();
app.UseStaticFiles();