frontcraft/src/frontend/server.ts

import 'zone.js/dist/zone-node';
import 'reflect-metadata';

import { ngExpressEngine } from '@nguniversal/express-engine';
import { provideModuleMap } from '@nguniversal/module-map-ngfactory-loader';
import { resolve } from 'path';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
const domino = require('domino');
const win = domino.createWindow('');

global['window'] = win;
global['document'] = win.document;
global['alert'] = console.log
global['XMLHttpRequest'] = require('xmlhttprequest').XMLHttpRequest;

export async function attachExpress(app, staticDir = "./dist", loggerService = console) {
  const STATIC_FOLDER = resolve(process.cwd(), staticDir);

  enableProdMode();

  const bundle = require(staticDir + '/server/main');

  const ServerApiService = bundle.ServerApiService
  const serviceObj = new ServerApiService(loggerService)
  await serviceObj.initialize()

  app.set('view engine', 'html');
  app.engine(
    'html',
    ngExpressEngine({
      bootstrap: bundle.AppServerModuleNgFactory,
      providers: [
        provideModuleMap(bundle.LAZY_MODULE_MAP),
        {
          provide: bundle.LoggerService,
          deps: [],
          useValue: loggerService
        },
        {
          provide: bundle.IApiService,
          deps: [],
          useValue: serviceObj,
        }
      ]
    })
  );

  app.get('*', (req, res) => {
    //console.log('*', req.path);
    res.render(resolve(STATIC_FOLDER, 'browser/index'), { req, res })
  });
}