Hi @luke I have still issues with SSR and Express.js after carefully reading the articles above. I feel that I just miss a tiny netlify tweak to make that work.
This is the folder structure of my project in VSCode:
The content of the netlify.toml is the following:
[build]
functions = "./functions"
[[redirects]]
from = "/*"
to = "/index.html"
status = 200
Finally I just have one server.js express app transformed as a Netlify Function which do the easy server side rendering based on the new Angular Clover approach.
server.js content:
const express = require('express');
const { Engine } = require('@nguniversal/common/clover/server');
const { join } = require('path');
const { format } = require('url');
const serverless = require('serverless-http');
// const PORT = 8080;
const DIST = join(__dirname, '..', 'dist', 'apps', 'web');
const app = express();
app.set('views', DIST);
app.get(
'*.*',
express.static(DIST, {
maxAge: '1y',
fallthrough: false,
})
);
// Redirect to default locale
// app.get(/^(\/|\/favicon\.ico)$/, (req, res) => {
// res.redirect(301, `/en-US${req.originalUrl}`);
// });
const ssr = new Engine();
app.get('*', (req, res, next) => {
ssr
.render({
publicPath: DIST,
url: format({
protocol: req.protocol,
host: `angular-ssr-test.netlify.app`,
// host: `localhost:${PORT}`,
pathname: req.path,
query: req.query,
}),
headers: req.headers,
})
.then(html => res.send(html))
.catch(err => next(err));
});
// app.listen(PORT, () => {
// console.log(`>>> Node Express server listening on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
// });
// Blog: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/09/13/how-to-run-express.js-apps-with-netlify-functions/
// Netlify + Express Apps: https://github.com/netlify-labs/netlify-functions-express
// Source: https://github.com/neverendingqs/netlify-express/blob/0780127cd575704e2a2a00a1a648ba5a5a66c388/express/server.js
app.use('/.netlify/functions/server', express.Router()); // path must route to lambda
module.exports = app;
module.exports.handler = serverless(app);
After deployment and calling the function url, the clover server which run locally well somehow messed up with the /.netlify/functions/server path.
I got the following error after calling this url: https://angular-ssr-test.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/server
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/var/task/dist/apps/web/.netlify/functions/server'
I hope we can ellaborate on this. The localhost version of server.js working well on my machine, I feel that it should also work with Netlify + Express.
Let me now if you have any tips what should I modify above to be compatible with the netlify routing.
Thanks in advance, Attila
I created a new topic as well to track this issue.