Does an Angular client UI run entirely in the browser

Question

Encountered some Angular developers who were discussing Angular's server side code. This surprised me.

Does Angular have server side code?

I was under the impression that all the code ( libraries, routing, components) all of it, is downloaded to the client.

My question is explicitly this : As you navigate through different routes, controllers, etc. in an Angular application, does the browser make repeated calls to the node web server.

Webapi calls are obviously calls to some server somewhere. That's not part of this question.

My impression from the limited amount of work I have done in angular(v8) is that it is entirely browser side.

This may be a simple question, but I have been unable to find a definitive answer.

Answer 1

Does an Angular client UI run entirely in the browser

Yes. The browser downloads the required bundles when the page loads.