Since the update of Core 2.1, there have been new Spa templates. I've tried out the Angular one, and updated it to Angular 6. Now everything works fine, except that I need to manually build everytime I make changes. This is strange because it used to work well with Angular 5 before. I've looked up a bit into this and I spotted this in the logs:

Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices:Information: > test@0.0.0 start C:[redacted]\Projects\test\test\ClientApp ng serve "--port" "62206"

** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:62206, open your browser on http://localhost:62206/ **

As you can see, it adds "--port" "62206" to the ng serve. When I later go to http://localhost:62206/, I can see my website and live updates seem to be working there!

I've tried restarting my server a few times and I noticed that each time it uses a different port. It almost seems random.

What I find even more infuriating is that my application is actually running on port 66230! Why doesn't SpaServices just use the IIS port? And is there a way to change it manually? Because if I have to wait for my server to start, scroll through the output to find the port it chose, type that in my address so I can debug, I will lose a lot of time and effort