I was playing with angular universal a bit but cant find option to use server side rendering only for some pages like home page and render all other routes in standard angular way. I don't want to use server side rendering for private pages where SEO is not needed. I can configure routes in express like this
// send all requests to Angular Universal
// if you want Express to handle certain routes (ex. for an API) make sure you adjust this
app.get('/', ngApp);
app.get('/home', ngApp);
app.get('/about', ngApp);
Ideally I don't want to know about NodeJs at all and configure it on angular routes config with property like serverSide: true
const appRoutes: Routes = [
//public route, I want server rendering for SEO
{ path: 'home', component: HomeComponent, serverSide: true },
//private user profile page, SEO is not needed
{ path: 'user/profile/:id', component: UserProfileComponent },
];
In your server.ts for routes you don't want to render just do as below
app.get('/api/**', (req, res) => { });
app.get('/app/**', (req, res) => {
console.log('not rendering app pages');
});
app.get('/auth/**', (req, res) => {
console.log('not rendering auth page');
});
// All regular routes use the Universal engine
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
res.render('index', { req });
});
Hope this helps.