Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

Adding Run Scripts to package.json

Now that we have added a second application to our Angular CLI config, we need to make sure we can easily build both applications without having to memorize the exact commands.

In order to do so, we will leverage the so-called npm scripts. These scripts are used to define operations that can be performed on our application. Examples of these operations are building the application, running tests, and deploying the application to a staging or production environment.

We can define our npm scripts in the scripts section of the package.json file in the root of our project.

Here, we will add three scripts called build, build:browser, and build:server, where the first script will invoke the other two.

This gives us the ...