I am currently implementing Angular Universal for my application. I already had a lot of mistakes to solve, but I stuck to this. I can create my application, aot compilation works fine, but when I start my server, which should load my application, I see this error:
Unexpected token import in my \ node_modules \ ng2-translate \ src \ translate.pipe.js: 1
I have already seen that for the server version there is a special loader that uses fs instead of http to find the json file matching langage.
So there is my code:
app.browser.module.ts
`import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { TranslateModule, TranslateStaticLoader, TranslateLoader } from 'ng2-translate';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';
import { BrowserStateTransferModule } from '@ngx-universal/state-transfer';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { HttpTranslate } from './translate.config';
@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule.withServerTransition({
appId: 'aml-website'
}),
BrowserStateTransferModule.forRoot(),
TranslateModule.forRoot({
provide: TranslateLoader,
useFactory: HttpTranslate,
deps: [Http],
}),
AppModule
],
bootstrap: [AppComponent],
})
export class AppBrowserModule {}`
app.server.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { ServerStateTransferModule, StateTransferService } from '@ngx-universal/state-transfer';
import { TranslateModule, TranslateStaticLoader, TranslateLoader } from 'ng2-translate';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';
import { ServerModule } from '@angular/platform-server';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';
import { HttpTranslate } from './translate.config';
import { TranslateUniversalLoader } from './translate.config';
@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule.withServerTransition({
appId: 'aml-website'
}),
ServerStateTransferModule.forRoot(),
ServerModule,
AppModule,
TranslateModule.forRoot({
provide: TranslateLoader,
useFactory: TranslateUniversalLoader,
})
],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppServerModule {
constructor(private readonly stateTransfer: StateTransferService){}
ngOnBootstrap = () => {
this.stateTransfer.inject();
}
}
translate.config.ts
import { TranslateModule, TranslateStaticLoader, TranslateLoader } from 'ng2-translate';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';
import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";
import * as fs from 'fs';
export function HttpTranslate(http: Http) {
return new TranslateStaticLoader(http, 'src/assets/translate', '.json')
}
export class TranslateUniversalLoader implements TranslateLoader {
constructor() {}
@param lang
@returns {any}
public getTranslation(lang: string): Observable<any> {
return Observable.create(observer => {
observer.next(JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(`../assets/translate/${lang}.json`, 'utf8')));
observer.complete();
});
}
}
server.ts
import 'reflect-metadata';
import 'zone.js/dist/zone-node';
import { platformServer, renderModuleFactory } from '@angular/platform-server';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppServerModuleNgFactory } from './dist/ngfactory/src/app/app.server.module.ngfactory';
import * as express from 'express';
import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import { join } from 'path';
const PORT = 4000;
enableProdMode();
const app = express();
const template = readFileSync(join(__dirname, 'dist', 'index.html')).toString();
app.engine('html', (_, options, callback) => {
const opts = { document: template, url: options.req.url };
renderModuleFactory(AppServerModuleNgFactory, opts)
.then(html => callback(null, html));
});
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', 'src')
app.get('*.*', express.static(join(__dirname, 'dist')));
app.get('*', (req, res) => {
res.render('index', { req });
});
app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(`listening on http:`);
});
And finally, inside my .module application, I need to import my TranslateModule
TranslateModule.forRoot({
provide: TranslateLoader,
useFactory: HttpTranslate,
deps: [Http],
})
, , app.browser.module app.server.module, ...
!