Angular build output is looked for one directory too high

Error recorded 14 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Angular. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen14 times
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Why it happens

Angular 17 and later write the built site into a browser/ subdirectory of the output path. The engine looks for index.html directly in the output path, so a successful build is reported as missing its index.html.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Detected project type: AngularUsing strategy: angularCompiling static assets on host> [email protected] build> ng build✔ Building...Initial chunk files | Names | Raw size...Static build finished but dist/expense-tracker-app/index.html is missing

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