[question] now.sh deployment about angular-universal HOT 4 CLOSED

@jkhask
The fact is that now v2 was released the 8 nov 2018 and the repository was initially setup to work with now v1.

The build workflow with now v2 is great but there is no builder optimized for angular universal application:

• Static Builder: works with angular as single page application ;
• Node.js Server Builder: works with node server application.

I tried to combine the both builders but I don't succeed to make them works as expected.

I think we need to write a builder optimized for universal application.

now v1 has more flexibility so we can still use it to deploy our angular universal application

You can configure the version 1 in the now.json and don't forget to create .nowignore file to exclude dist and node_modules folders.

---------------------------------- .nowignore ----------------------------------
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de4d1f0
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+dist
+node_modules

----------------------------------- now.json -----------------------------------
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87a0dd6
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "version": 1,
+  "name": "ng-universal"
+}

Finally run now deploy and that works well!

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seems we cannot use now 1 anymore
I've used your now.json and .nowignore files but still get the error:
Error! You tried to create a Now 1.0 deployment. Please use Now 2.0 instead: https://zeit.co/upgrade

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I tried again to deploy for now v2 with Node.js Server Builder: I don't succeed too.

Below what I tried (patch at end of this post):

• remove scripts now-build adn now-start from package.json ;
• create .nowignore with content node_modules ;
• update now.json with version 2 and builders { "src": "./dist/app/server/main.js", "use": "@now/node-server" } ;
• run now deploy and open url deployment.

I just see a file explorer which has file ./dist/app/server/main.js only.

May I don't understand how to deploy a node server (with others static assets) with now v2?

If someone can help do not hesitate. Because the only I see to do what we need to deploy angular universal application with now v2 is to write a custom builder.

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diff --git a/.nowignore b/.nowignore
index de4d1f0..3c3629e 100644
--- a/.nowignore
+++ b/.nowignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-dist
 node_modules
diff --git a/now.json b/now.json
index 87a0dd6..25b6e79 100644
--- a/now.json
+++ b/now.json
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 {
-  "version": 1,
-  "name": "ng-universal"
+  "version": 2,
+  "name": "ng-universal",
+  "builds": [
+    {
+      "src": "./dist/app/server/main.js",
+      "use": "@now/node-server"
+    }
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 41ab2e7..0a4012a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@
     "dev:spa": "ng serve --hmr",
     "test": "ng test",
     "lint": "ng lint",
-    "e2e": "ng e2e",
-    "now-build": "ng run angular:udk:production",
-    "now-start": "node ./dist/app/server/main.js"
+    "e2e": "ng e2e"
   },
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {

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Has anyone gotten this to work with current Vercel? I tried something like this, but it does not work:

{
  "version": 2,
  "public": true,
  "name": "test-universal",
  "builds": [
    { "src": "package.json", "use": "@vercel/static-build" },
    { "src": "./dist/test/server/main.js", "use": "@vercel/node" }
  ],
  "routes": [{ "src": "/(.*)", "dest": "./dist/test/server/main.js" }]
}

J

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