ng serve with traditional backend
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Description
### Which @angular/* package(s) are relevant/related to the feature request?
compiler-cli
### Description
I would like to serve the index.html using a traditional backend, and use ng serve to get HMR for the angular app.
The issue with a proxy for the backend API calls is that development and production behave differently. Also, you cant have additional logic on the backend before serving the index.html (for example cookie auth)
### Proposed solution
Have a flag on `ng serve` that the websocket should go directly to the angular server. and would be nice if we can have a single script instead of having to add it all manually.
In vite all you need to do is add the following to your server's HTML template.
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https://vitejs.dev/guide/backend-integration.html
### Alternatives considered
I tried adding the full path to the angular scripts, but the `/ng-cli-ws` calls goes to the backend server.
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`--public-host=localhost:4200` fixes the /ng-cli-ws call, but lazy loading and the .hot-update.json still goes the backend server.

changing the base href to `https://localhost:4200/` fixes above, but breaks the routing links
also, you need to enable ssl if your backend is ssl, as it will go to wss instead of ws, i think this should rather be based on options.ssl see https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/24373#issue-1475322626.
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Research direction
Start by tracing ng serve handling for /ng-cli-ws, lazy-loaded assets, hot-update files, and the options.ssl behavior, then review the existing public-host flow. Done means a supported way to serve Angular’s development assets and websocket through a traditional backend without breaking backend routing or protocol selection.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100