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How to do AOT compilation properly in Angular

I am a bit confused by reading the doc about AOT. And I quote:

You can compile the app in the browser, at runtime, as the application loads, using the just-in-time (JIT) compiler. This is the standard development approach shown throughout the documentation. It's great but it has shortcomings.

I have 2 confusions here:

  1. So this is decribing ng serve as far as I understand it, right? But in production, if I don't run my app this way, just ng build it and host it by a web server like apache, is this "ng build" JIT or AOT?
  2. And this page describe AOT is quite complex to set it up, but isn't Angular-cli has taken care of everything to allow you to build your app just by: ng build --aot or ng server --aot, am I correct? So the doc should be for only when you want to do AOT manually without Anuglar-cli, right?
Solution

  • The Angular CLI actually uses AOT for production build (ng build --prod) by default. You can see this if you ever try to bind a private value in your component's class to your HTML/view and build it (it wont work).