How to serve a txt file in an Angular app

Question

I have to follow these steps to verify my app, but I am having trouble making a route to link to my file.

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The link above is the instructions I was given, I created the text file and I have it in my assets folder in my angular 2 app. However I have no idea how to create the route http://www.example.com/riot.txt so that it refers to my txt document file. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm using Angular 2.

Answer 1

You shouldn't need to create a route in Angular at all. If you're using the Angular CLI (or a similar setup) you can put the file in your src directory and add it to the assets property in the .angular-cli.json file.

npm install -g @angular/cli
ng new blog
echo 'Hello, World' > src/greeting.txt

Your .angular-cli.json would look like this.

{
  "$schema": "./node_modules/@angular/cli/lib/config/schema.json",
  "project": {
    "name": "blog"
  },
  "apps": [
    {
      "root": "src",
      "outDir": "dist",
      "assets": [
        "assets",
        "greeting.txt",
        "favicon.ico"
      ],
      "index": "index.html",
      "main": "main.ts",
      "polyfills": "polyfills.ts",
      "test": "test.ts",
      "tsconfig": "tsconfig.app.json",
      "testTsconfig": "tsconfig.spec.json",
      "prefix": "app",
      "styles": [
        "styles.css"
      ],
      "scripts": [],
      "environmentSource": "environments/environment.ts",
      "environments": {
        "dev": "environments/environment.ts",
        "prod": "environments/environment.prod.ts"
      }
    }
  ],
  "e2e": {
    "protractor": {
      "config": "./protractor.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "lint": [
    {
      "project": "src/tsconfig.app.json"
    },
    {
      "project": "src/tsconfig.spec.json"
    },
    {
      "project": "e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json"
    }
  ],
  "test": {
    "karma": {
      "config": "./karma.conf.js"
    }
  },
  "defaults": {
    "styleExt": "css",
    "component": {}
  }
}

Then you can run ng serve.

ng serve

As you can see, this is an issue in configuring your web server to serve static files - which most should by default.