ServeNg2DistHttp2

Serve Angular 2+ dist files in HTTP/2 with an embedded Jetty server and Java 9

1. Introduction : This application let you upload your Angular 2+ dist folder to a running embedded Jetty server which will serve the files via the HTTP/2 protocol

2. Requirements : The project needs JDK9 to run, it can't be run with any other version of Java

3. Getting started :

   • Execute mvn clean install, the generated jars will be under the directory NgHttp2Server in target, copy that directory where you want and execute java -jar Server.jar to start the server, it will start on 8080 port for http and on 8443 for https, you can change those ports by specifying them as argument, example : java -jar Server.jar -http 8888 -https 8444
   • Or launch 'com.nd.MainClass' from eclipse
   • open https://localhost:8443/upload.html in the browser and upload the dist folder of your angular 2+ application
   • The Ng2 application will be accessible via the url https://localhost:8443
   • The same upload page and application url are accessible via http : http://localhost:8080/upload.html and http://localhost:8080

4. Restarting the server : There is no need to reupload the the same dist directory each time the server is restarted, the last upload is always conserved in a zip file and restored when the server starts

5. Deactivating http protocol : By default, the server is serving via http and https, if you want to deactivate http protocol start the server with -nohttp argument, example : java -jar Server.jar -nohttp

6. SSL certificate used in this project :
   This project was never meant to have a production quality level, it has a self-signed ssl certificate, if you want to put your own certificate then you will need :

   • To put your own cerificate by replacing the file /src/main/resources/keystore
   • And to change the passwords in the com.nd.services.ServerService class

7. Why the build output of the project is a folder and not as one jar with dependencies : Building this project as one jar made the http2 requests failing when executed, the only way that made it work is to build it as a folder, it is a problem related to this : jetty/jetty.project#1548