Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

Adding Dependencies for the Server App

In order to get our server app working correctly, we need to make sure we load two of Angular's dependencies: zone.js and reflect-metadata.

Our browser app loads these dependencies using polyfills.ts, and for the server app, we will add them to src/main.server.ts.

Another dependency that we need to add is the ModuleMapLoaderModule. This is a third-party module that is needed to make Angular Universal apps work with lazy loading.

We will import two dependencies in src/main.server.ts so that they are imported when the AppServerModule is loaded.

Additionally, we will enable production mode, just like it's done for the browser app in src/main.ts:

1. Open the newly created file src/main.server.ts.
2. Add the imports at the ...