What problem does it solve?
Many Angular applications struggle with slow time-to-first-byte, poor SEO, and hydration mismatches when rendered purely on the client. This Skill provides patterns and configuration to run Angular v20+ on the server, produce prerendered pages, and hydrate progressively to deliver faster, SEO-friendly pages while avoiding runtime errors from browser-only APIs.
Core Features & Use Cases
- SSR Integration: Step-by-step guidance to add @angular/ssr, bootstrap server and browser entry points, and run an Express or CommonEngine host for dynamic SSR.
- Prerendering & Routing: Configure route renderMode options for prerender, server, or client-only routes and generate dynamic prerender params for large collections.
- Hydration Strategies: Use provideClientHydration, incremental hydration triggers, and event replay to defer work and capture early user events.
- Browser-only Safe Patterns: Platform detection, injected browser API tokens, afterNextRender hooks, and TransferState patterns to prevent hydration mismatches.
- Deployment & Caching: Build outputs, server run commands, TransferState HTTP caching, CDN headers, and stale-while-revalidate strategies for production deployments.
Quick Start
Add @angular/ssr to your Angular v20+ project, configure server and browser bootstraps, set route render modes for prerendering or SSR, and enable provideClientHydration to activate hydration.