We have an Angular application with SSR that has some custom webpack configuration. We use NX to build it, with the executors @angular-builders/custom-webpack:browser and @angular-devkit/build-angular:server. It currently does SSR using CommonEngine, but we would like to migrate to the new AngularNodeAppEngine. According to the NX website, @nx/angular:webpack-server is a "drop-in replacement for the @angular-devkit/build-angular:server builder provided by the Angular CLI" (and similarly for @nx/angular:webpack-browser). However, when running the generated main.js file, it immediately dies with the following Error: Error: Angular app engine manifest is not set. Please ensure you are using the '@angular/build:application' builder to build your server application. at getAngularAppEngineManifest (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:1:4955398) at <instance_members_initializer> (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:1:4955554) at new AngularAppEngine2 (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:1:4955252) at <instance_members_initializer> (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:105945) at new AngularNodeAppEngine (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:105901) at 97432 (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:105897) at __webpack_require__ (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:337379) at /xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:339798 at Object.<anonymous> (/xxx/dist/website/server/main.js:142:340086) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1565:14) Digging through the source code, it appears that @angular/build:application internally generates an AngularAppEngineManifest for the server, but apparently the NX builder doesn't. Is this an unsupported feature? Upcoming? I haven't been able to find any documentation either way... Continue reading...
