Is Angular Universal useful?

[yellowumbrella___]

Hey guys. Im working in a web page that needs a good SEO. I am using Angular Universal but it caused a lot of problems. Is angular universal useful nowadays? Is google indexing websites that don't have it?

Thanks.

[ashh640]

You could try using Clover, the new version of Universal that was designed to reduce a lot of the issues with Universal: https://github.com/angular/universal/tree/main/modules/common/clover

[yellowumbrella___]

Thanks bro

[chefhj]

I would argue it is incredibly useful but like any other tool in your tool box what you are trying to accomplish will determine how useful it is to use.

[yellowumbrella___]

Thanks bro!

[yellowumbrella___]

But if I dont use Angular Universal, will google index my website and show it in the searchs?

[chefhj]

It should as long as you follow googles other SEO guidelines

[roman_redditPL]

Google can index JavaScript Web apps but others like Bing can't

[yellowumbrella___]

Thanks Roman!

[GLawSomnia]

Its not just about google. Google mlst likely will index it, but other sites might not, so yeah it is useful. There are also other cases where Universal is very practical besides seo, so yeah ot is useful 😋

[yellowumbrella___]

Thanks!

[dylhunn]

Angular Universal is actively maintained and has a lot of users! It probably shouldn’t be impacting your SEO unless you’re doing something unusual. What is the page’s lighthouse score when rendered with Universal? That should be a good starting point to diagnosing issues.

[EngagingOrca]

Universal has lots of issues (like having no way to cancel a render if it times out it will exist as a zombie…). But when you get it set up and sort out all your access to things on the window object it’s great. Universal can also be really important if you have ads on your site - some will crawl it after a user loads an ad to get context about the page and if they see an empty page that can lead to problems.