Disable SSR in an Angular project

You started a new project in Angular with Server-side Rendering because: "it's cool".
After few iterations you notice that there are multiple issues and there are not really benefits using SSR for your use case.

How to disable Angular SSR

In your `angular.json build->options you have something like:

"server": "src/main.server.ts", 
"outputMode": "server", 
"ssr": { 
  "entry": "src/server.ts" 
} 

You have to set ssr and predendered to false,outputMode` to be set on static:

 "server": "src/main.server.ts", 
    "outputMode": "static", 
    "ssr": false, 
    "prerender": false 

After this change when you run ng build (for production) you will find your application in the browser folder again:

Is SSR really necessary?

In most of the uses cases in which we use Angular Server-Side Rendering is not necessary, it adds a lot of complexity without bringing many benefits.

To deploy SSR we need a NodeJs server, in case we are developing the backend with Java, it adds an extra layer.

The server needs to know all the path to pre-render the pages. When the web site has some dynamic feature this add a lot of works to list all the possible parameters.

A possible use case

I think SSR could be useful if we have a lot of existing Angular components and we want to build a static website using the same design and components.