Angular Universal PWA starter/boilerplate (CLI schematics)

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This is boilerplate for (PWA) progressive web app with Angular Universal (serverside rendering). It is prepared to be easily deployed on serverless environment (Google Cloud Functions & AWS Lambda supported).

Live demo

Angular Universal PWA on AWS Lambda + API Gateway

Content

• What's inside
• Getting started
• Deployment
• To do
• Question, Problem, Feature Request
• Support @ng-toolkit/init

What's inside

• PWA - content is cached and available offline, it can be also installed as native app on Android devices and Google Chrome
• AMP - Accelerated Mobile Pages - super fast initial load (down to ~650ms)
• Push notifications:
  • Vapid webpush (Chrome and Firefox) - Using aws-sns-webpush as back-end
  • Safari push - Using aws-sns-webpush as back-end
• Server-side rendering with Angular Universal
• TransferState
• Lazy loading modules
• External modules (You can split your application into multiple projects and lazy-load them, read more here) [TBD after CLI merge - #150]
• Angular Material
• Unit tests
• Firebug Lite (great solution for development on touch-screen devices, ie: tablets)

Used frameworks/technologies

• Angular 6.x
• Webpack
• Serverless framework

Getting Started

Whatch on Youtube:

Using Angular CLI schematics

npm install -g @ng-toolkit/init

Create project:

ng new --collection @ng-toolkit/init myApp
cd myApp
npm start

CLI params

• --provider - What serverless provider you want to use? (aws | gcloud | firebase) - default aws
• --firebaseProject - projectID, used when you choose firebase in above param
• --gaTrackingCode - Provide your Google Analytics tracking code, to enable GA (ie --gaTrackingCode UA-123456)
• --firebug - Decide if you want to download firebug-lite (true | false) - default false

Cloning the repo

git clone https://github.com/maciejtreder/ng-toolkit.git
cd ng-toolkit/application
npm install
npm start

Running modes

• Development mode (autoreload only): npm start
• Development mode (autoreload + unit tests): npm run build:dev
• Development mode (autoreload + firebug lite): npm run build:firebug
• Development mode (autoreload + firebug lite + unit tests): npm run build:dev:firebug
• Unit tests: npm run test

Deployment

Production mode with NodeJS

npm run build:prod
npm run server

Serverless environments

Maintenance link (not customized)

npm run build:serverless:deploy

Custom link

npm run build:prod:deploy

Check out Serverless library documentation Read more about link customization in AWS API Gateway & Lambda

To do

• prerender app for 'no-backend' hosting
• microservices support - make replacement eligible external module without recompiling whole app
• ng-http-sw-proxy (all requests done offline, are synced when app comes back online) - not working since Angular 5.x (more info can be found in this issue)
• e2e tests

Won't implement:

• load static content from S3 (JavaScript, styles, images):
  • when serving all static content from S3 load speed up is not really visible (increase is around ~0,2 sec),
  • problems with CORS on Chrome,
  • problems with compression of some files (.js files are not compressed in some cases)
  • needs a lot of manual setup (cloudfront setup etc.)

Looking for something more?

Feel free to create issue with your feature request

Support @ng-toolkit/init

You can support development of this project via

• Open Collective,
• Donorbox,
• Liberapay

If you want, you can be listed on the List of donors on the demo page.

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Credentials

• Checkout my home page and find out more about me