Production build

[VanQz]

ng serve will start the server in development environment but how would i be able to start the server in production environment?

[GuillaumeDeconinck]

To start in prod, you have multiple choices, but it all starts with the following command:
ng build --prod creates a dist directory that contains all the required files in a prod environment.
Those are static files, you can serve them with a FTP server or, for example, with a Node server (like Express, Koa, ...) as static assets.
In fact, anything that can serve static files can be used to serve the website. nginx is also a common choice.

In our case, we use the file server provided with osrts-backend (more precisely thanks to this line: https://github.com/osrts/osrts-backend/blob/master/src/app.js#L45).
We move all the files generated with ng build prod that are inside the dist folder to a public folder inside osrts-backend. The backend server will automatically serve those files.