How many of you use Angular Universal as UI framework?
 

Hi,
it's about two years that I'm running a chat web site using Angular Universal.
Initially it was a pain in the ass but now I think I have a lot much control on everything.

Last exemple, I'm not rendering server side the user comments under my blogs so, if there is span in the user comments, this will not recognized by the search engine crawler.

About the Google PageSpeed insight I have 98-100 score on most of my pages (after my last cache update). This was one of the main problems with Angular Universal.

The lazy loading allow to me to manage a big size project (more than 150 components in 40 modules).

I can say that my experience was good and I don't regret the framework choise.

What about you? What do you use for the UI?

Stay away from SPA frameworks if you want to rank on Google

It depends on how you use it. My site is ranked #295k on Alexa and has 99 as score on google Pagespeed insights.
The application is enough light to be loaded according with the SEO standards and its less than 3 Mb.
The client framework help a lot to distribute the load and I can run on a cheap server a complex application with 5k users per day

There definitely can be a lot of problems being caused by dynamic loading all content (or lazy loading) through AJAX calls, which Angular does, and which might cause issues with Google spiders not being able to read the content.

Things like loading dynamic content inside modals using AJAX calls, infinite scroll and lazy loading images, when done wrong, might not be visible to crawlers.

It seems you are speaking about Angular and not of Angular Universal that is rendered server side. I found the powerful to decide what to render and what not according to my strategy. I. e. Google is not aware about the comments of my community on the blog posts.

I see, you're right. Never heard of Angular Universal. But I'm not a big fan of using frameworks anyway, takes quite some time to get to learn to work fast with it. Much rather keep it basic and just build in the functions I actually need.

Universal Works
 

I'm using Angular as a framework.

Without Universal the indexing doesn't work so well.

If you use AWS you can setup an universal lambda:

google > ngtoolkit universal

The indexing works pretty good with this setup. Speed is also good.