I have created a C# WinForms program with a WebView2 control to show an Angular user interface. The Angular frontend was created in Visual Studio Code and so far I used npm to serve the Angular frontend for development. But in the end the target is that my C# backend can start the Angular frontend by itself to show the user interface.

I already managed to do this by the following code, which simply starts the npm service in the background to make the frontend accessible for the WebView2 control:

string angularProjectPath = @"C:workspacesoftwaremcinspect_cssourcesClientmcinspectsrc";

// Set the command to start the Angular development server
string command = "npm start";

// Start the Angular development server process
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo
{
    FileName = "cmd.exe",
    RedirectStandardInput = true,
    UseShellExecute = false,
    WorkingDirectory = angularProjectPath,
    CreateNoWindow = true
};

g_uiProcess = Process.Start(psi);
g_uiProcess.StandardInput.WriteLine(command);

But with this approach, the user of my program needs to have npm installed on his computer to use the software. I was wondering if there is an alternative way to provide a webserver by my C# project to serve the user interface. I saw there are some Angular Nugets available, but I’m not sure if I can use one of these to do this. I would prefer a solution where the serve of my frontend is fully integrated into my C# project to show the user interface. What is the right way to do it?

I used the code in the description to serve my frontend.