SSR

NgDoc fully supports server-side rendering (SSR) of your documentation. This means that you can generate static HTML files for your documentation and host them on any web server for fast loading and SEO.

Adding SSR to existing documentation

If you already have an existing documentation project that uses NgDoc, this article will help you add SSR to it. If you try to run the ng add @angular/ssr command on an existing NgDoc project, you will get an error message that looks like this:

Path "undefined" does not exist.

It happens because the ng add @angular/ssr command tries to add SSR to the project based on the builder configuration in the angular.json file. Since NgDoc projects use a custom builder, the command fails.

As a workaround, you can replace NgDoc builder with the default Angular builder, add SSR, and then restore the NgDoc builder back. Here is the list of NgDoc builders and their Angular alternatives: