I am a beginner in Angular 4/ Angular 2. I am building an app which consists of
1) static html files( aboutus.html, pricing.html, contact us.html etc), with corresponding css, js files 2) single page application with complex functionality
The first part #1 does not need Angular at all as it's completely static. After login a user comes to #2. From the Angular tutorials that I went through, it seems I need to combine #1 and #2 together and still have to create components etc out of #1, which I feel is unnecessary.
Is there a way, I can build this project such that I can use the static html as is and use Angular only for the dynamic single page app? Any helpful links or examples would be much appreciated.
If you want to serve static files locally with ng serve, you need to add them either in your assets folder or add to the assets config. See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/5029
You can put your static html files into the /assets/ folder.
For example, if you put your aboutus.html file into the folder /assets/static/, then you can link to http://localhost/assets/static/aboutus.html
You can't use the router to integrate static html pages, but you still can use normal HTML links. There is no need to name the file that contains the Angular application index.html