How To Deploy Angular 17 Application Freely

Introduction

Google is providing firebase console to host your angular application freely.

Firebase is an app development platform that helps you build and grow apps and games users love. Backed by Google and trusted by millions of businesses around the world.

Login to firebase with your google account.

https://firebase.google.com 

Create Angular 17 Application using Angular CLI

As of today (May 5th, 2024) Angular 17.3.6 is the latest version. 

We can upgrade our Angular CLI to latest version.

C:\Users\sarathlal>npm install @angular/cli -g

We can upgrade the npm also 

npm install -g [email protected]

We can check the Angular CLI version now.

We can create an Angular application now.

D:\Work\Angular\001>ng new AngularGlobe

After installing the packaging, we can go to the application in Visual Studio Code by Microsoft. 

We can run the angular application by below command.

ng serve

 Recently, Angular team has changed the home page design. 

We can add our globe image in app.component.html file with a small style class in app.component.css as well.

app.component.html

<h1>
  <img src="../assets/Our_Moon_Phases_and_Eclipses.gif" class="center">
</h1>
<p class="center">
  
  <a href="https://www.esa.int/" target="_blank">Image Courtesy : THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY</a>
</p>

app.component.css

.center {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    width: 50%;
  }

Image Courtesy: THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY


Login Firebase Console with Google account.

We can give a name to our Angular project. 

Configure google analytics. 

Various options available in Firebase. You can explore each feature. 

We can focus on Hosting options. 

We have to install firebase-tools

npm install -g firebase-tools
firebase login

Proceed Yes

You can select the hosting option with space bar.

We have already created a project in Firebase.

Please select the project with existing project option.

Now we must select the build folder.

Before selecting the build folder we can build our project using below command.

ng build

Now we have choose the build folder.

NB: Please note that Angular team now changed the deployment path to dist\<project name>\browser

We can deploy the application now.

Firebase Deploy

Application is deployed to https://angular-globe.web.app 

If needed, you can purchase a domain from GoDaddy or BlueHost and link with Firebase free domain. 

Conclusion

In this post, we have seen how to create a simple angular application in in Angular 17 and freely hosted in Google Firebase Console.


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