Alan 068bb4001d docs: add deprecation and pr note
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**Documentation below is deprecated and we no longer accept PRs to improve this. The new documentation will be available in [angular.io](https://angular.io)**.
# App shell
App shell is a way to render a portion of your application via a route at build time. This gives users a meaningful first paint of your application because the browser does not need to initialize any JavaScript, just rendering the HTML.
## Steps
### Step 1: Prepare the application
An application must be set up with routing. This can be accomplished by running:
```
ng new my-app --routing
```
Or if you have an existing application you can manually add routing by including the RouterModule and defining a `<router-outlet>` within your app.
### Step 2: Create the app shell
```
ng generate app-shell --client-project my-app --universal-project server-app
```
`my-app` is the name of your client application
`server-app` is the name of the universal (or server) application
After running this command you will notice that the `angular.json` configuration file has been updated. Two new targets were added (and a few other changes):
```
"server": {
"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:server",
"options": {
"outputPath": "dist/my-app-server",
"main": "src/main.server.ts",
"tsConfig": "src/tsconfig.server.json"
}
},
"app-shell": {
"builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:app-shell",
"options": {
"browserTarget": "my-app:build",
"serverTarget": "my-app:server",
"route": "shell"
}
}
```
### Step 3: Verify the app is built with the shell content
build with the app shell target
```
ng run my-app:app-shell
```
If you would like to build for production you should run the following command
```
ng run my-app:app-shell:production
ng run my-app:app-shell --configuration production
```
Verify the build output
Open dist/index.html
look for text "app-shell works!" which verifies that the app shell route was rendered as part of the output