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SSG/Prerendering: Allow generating foo.html instead of foo/index.html #29173
Description
Description
Angular's Prerendering puts nested routes into a subfolder with index.html:
=> Route blog/myslug becomes blog/myslug/index.html
The web server adds a trailing slash (for the folder) which is then removed by the Angular router, and it leads to an initial redirect.
Describe the solution you'd like
Some static site generators allow to create a flat structure instead with no subfolder:
=> Route blog/myslug becomes blog/myslug.html
Proposed solution:
- Output
myslug/index.htmlby default, it is the most compatible output that works on each and every web server - add an option for flat output (
myslug.html) that can be used if I know my web server supports this
Context
- Jekyll always outputs
myslug.html - Nuxt v2 has an option
- Next.js has an option
Most cloud hosting providers allow to serve myslug.html under myslug:
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- Firebase Hosting
- Vercel
- Netlify
Further read on trailing slash and framework/provider support: https://bjornlu.com/blog/trailing-slash-for-frameworks
Activity
SanderElias commentedon Dec 18, 2024
I like the idea.
Just ensure that it is appropriately documented that only some providers support this.
Preferably, this should be done even in a way that surfaces this in the code-editor when they use this option.
angular-robot commentedon Dec 18, 2024
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angular-robot commentedon Jan 27, 2025
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angular-robot commentedon Feb 16, 2025
Thank you for submitting your feature request! Looks like during the polling process it didn't collect a sufficient number of votes to move to the next stage.
We want to keep Angular rich and ergonomic and at the same time be mindful about its scope and learning journey. If you think your request could live outside Angular's scope, we'd encourage you to collaborate with the community on publishing it as an open source package.
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angular-robot commentedon Jun 23, 2025
Thank you for submitting your feature request! Looks like during the polling process it didn't collect a sufficient number of votes to move to the next stage.
We want to keep Angular rich and ergonomic and at the same time be mindful about its scope and learning journey. If you think your request could live outside Angular's scope, we'd encourage you to collaborate with the community on publishing it as an open source package.
You can find more details about the feature request process in our documentation.
JohannesHoppe commentedon Sep 25, 2026
I've opened a PR with a proposal for this: #34180. It adds a
formatproperty to theprerenderoption ("directory"by default,"file"for<route>.html), following Astro'sbuild.format.For anyone who can't wait:
@angular-schule/prerender-formatis a drop-in builder for Angular 22 that provides the same option until it lands in Angular (ng add @angular-schule/prerender-format).feat(@angular/build): add `prerenderFormat` option to prerender route…
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