How to connect Angular and Node.js( Express)?

Question

Angular

Good afternoon I am
using angular2-seed to develop an application with the following structure:

I made folders from the root "client" and "server". In the server, after all the manipulations with the tsd install express -sfile server.ts
, I put the following in it

import express = require('express');
import path = require('path');
var port: number = process.env.PORT || 3000;
var app = express();

var renderIndex = (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
    res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname, '../client/dist/dev/index.html'));
}

app.get('/*', renderIndex);

var server = app.listen(port, function() {
    var host = server.address().address;
    var port = server.address().port;
    console.log('This express app is listening on port:' + port);
});

In the case of running server.ts, I get errors

. As I understand it, this is due to the fact that it is not written where to get static files from. Something like

app.use('/folder', express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '../client/dist/prod/folder/')))

It’s not clear to me, in the case of dev and prod, which folders to specify in

app.use('/folder', express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '../client/dist/dev/folder/')))

to make it work?

Answer 1

I started using mean.io. Cool solution, mean means mongo express angular nodejs.
The main things are already implemented in the kernel, you just have to make your own package

Answer 2

here is a working starter-kit: https://github.com/angular/universal-starter
and tsd is dead, take typings