serve prerendered files with an express app instead of http-server

[ohabash]

problem

right now prerendering is working in my universal app. I start the server like this

cd dist/browser && http-server

but now my site does not have a configurable server. Id like to host an api and the static prerendered paths with an an express server.

tried

to added this middleware to server.ts

app.get('*', function (req, res) {
    res.render(`${req.path}/index`, { req: req });
});

that works but unlike http-server there is a flicker; maybe something wrong with the transferState ?

was expecting

the express app to serve prerendered routes (node dist/server) exactly the same as http-server (cd dist/browser && http-server)