title: What server does ng serve use when using Angular CLI 1.6.0?
body: <p>What server does this Angular CLI command use, when using Angular CLI 1.6.0?</p>
  
  <pre><code>ng serve
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  <p>Since webpack is now being used by the Angular CLI for the website bundling, does that mean ng-serve is using the webpack-dev-server (which is a Node.js Express server)? There is some indication in the following Q/A that ng serve possibly used to piggyback off a server used by Ember:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37137521/what-happens-when-you-run-ng-serve">What happens when you run ng serve?</a></p>