Angular Cli Deployment on openshift 3 - deployment

Question

I'm trying to deploy angular cli project to openshift 3. It continuously failing the build with "Generic Build failure", no farther info on log. Can any one please walk me through the process if I'm wrong, and is there a way to deploy the compiled dist folder and avoid the build process or what is the best practice? Thank You in Advance.
here are my scripts:
package.json
server.js

Answer 1

The approach I use is to create a Jenkins pipeline whose build step does the following
npm install -d
npm install --save classlist.js
$(npm bin)/ng build --prod --build-optimizer
rm -rf node_modules
oc start-build angular-5-example --from-dir=. --follow
You can see that the final step is to kick off a binary build in Openshift passing the contents of the current directory (minus the node_modules which is not needed and rather large). This binary build simply copies the dist folder output of the ng build into a nginx base image plus some configuration files
FROM nginx:1.13.3-alpine
## Copy our nginx config
COPY nginx/ /etc/nginx/conf.d/
## Remove default nginx website
RUN rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html/*
## copy over the artifacts in dist folder to default nginx public folder
COPY dist/ /usr/share/nginx/html
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
A fully working example application which describes how an Angular CLI generated project can be deployed to Openshift 3 can be found at
https://github.com/petenorth/angular-5-example
The application is an Angular 5 app.