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Setting up production builds

When developing locally, you may want to use live reloading (or hot reloading). However, when packaging for distribution, the application needs to have access to the production output.

The Angular CLI allows us to quickly compile a web application in production mode. You can do this by running the following command:

ng build --prod

According to the Angular documentation, the —prod switch does the following:

When true, it sets the build configuration to the production target. All builds make use of bundling and limited tree-shaking. A production build also runs limited dead code elimination.

This means that you get a minimal and highly optimized output, as follows:

You will probably run this command often when ...