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Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

You're reading from   Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular Discover how to rapidly prototype SEO-friendly web applications with Angular Universal

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789342161
Length 110 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adding Dynamic Metadata


Now that our pages can be rendered using server-side rendering, we can introduce new functionality to enhance the appearance of our app.

At the moment, our app will still only display the default title set in src/index.html and we won't have any other HTML meta tags added.

To enhance the SEO friendliness of our page, and to make sure there is valuable information in our social preview, we want to address this.

Luckily, Angular comes with the Meta and Title classes, which allow us to add dynamic titles and metadata to our pages.

When combined with server-side rendering, the metadata and page title will make sure that the pages that are indexed by the search engine have the proper meta tags set in the document header, and thus increase findability.

In this section, we will add a service that allows us to define this data, and we will update our container components to call in that service after the data is loaded from our resolvers.

Creating the UiService

  1. Open a terminal inside...

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