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feat: add option to disable route extraction feature

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript

Research direction

Start with the build command and the existing NG_BUILD_PARTIAL_SSR=1 behavior, then reproduce the issue using src/main.server.ts line 9 in the linked example repository. Done means a flag can disable route extraction during build or serve, while applications with dynamically loaded routes continue to work.

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Description

area: @angular/ssr feature feature: insufficient votes
Command

build

Description

When migrating apps to SSR, route extraction basically gets in the way and makes it harder to understand where the issue/error is coming from, as it tries to run before everything else either during build or server.

Instead of fixing other SSR related errors, I have to go and fix route extraction issues.

Also, there is no way to know if route extraction is happening. But even if it was possible the code would be full of checks on what mode is Angular running, and having to deal with all the states instead of just handling a normal case of -> open the url -> render angular -> serve html.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a flag to disable route extraction during build or serve totally, at least just for development purposes.
When routes are dynamically loaded based on config, having the extraction happen before the config can be loaded breaks the dynamic apps. If I build my app with a config that has 3 routes, and then on runtime I want to use another config.json file to load other routes (that also include the first three but with different configs), would cause my app to misbehave because of the initial extracted routes.


NG_BUILD_PARTIAL_SSR=1 partially solves this by skipping the route extraction and doing it initial request.

Repo

Comment out line 9 to better understand that serving or building the app is painful, even though on normal conditions opening localhost:4200/config.json loads fine.

https://github.com/eneajaho/dx-issue/blob/main/src/main.server.ts#L9

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