diff --git a/angular.json b/angular.json
index e6f2225..943f48d 100644
--- a/angular.json
+++ b/angular.json
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
               ],
               "outputHashing": "all"
             },
+            "browser-only": {
+              "server": false,
+              "ssr": false
+            },
             "development": {
               "optimization": false,
               "extractLicenses": false,
diff --git a/azure-pipelines/igniteui-angular-grid-examples.yml b/azure-pipelines/igniteui-angular-grid-examples.yml
index 56cc049..c1cea84 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines/igniteui-angular-grid-examples.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines/igniteui-angular-grid-examples.yml
@@ -127,12 +127,25 @@ stages:
             npx --userconfig=$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/.npmrc --legacy-peer-deps ng g @igniteui/angular-schematics:upgrade-packages
 
       - task: Npm@1
-        displayName: 'npm run build:ci'
+        displayName: 'npm run build:ci (browser only)'
         inputs:
           command: custom
           workingDir: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)'
           verbose: ${{ parameters.isVerbose }}
-          customCommand: 'run build:ci'
+          # IIS serves the static browser output only, so skip the server bundle and
+          # route prerendering. `production` must be listed explicitly - naming a
+          # configuration replaces the default one, which would drop output hashing.
+          customCommand: 'run build:ci -- --configuration production,browser-only'
+        env:
+          # The build exhausts the ~7.9GB Microsoft-hosted agent ("Free memory is lower
+          # than 5%") and intermittently stalls until Azure reports "We stopped hearing
+          # from agent" - see #171. esbuild runs as a separate Go process, so Node-side
+          # settings (worker count, heap size) do not bound its memory - GOMEMLIMIT/GOGC
+          # do. These values are reused from another Ignite UI pipeline where they keep
+          # a similar Angular build stable; they are not yet tuned for this agent size.
+          GOMEMLIMIT: '6GiB'
+          GOGC: '50'
+          NODE_OPTIONS: '--max_old_space_size=4096'
 
       - task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
 
diff --git a/ignite-ui-cli.json b/ignite-ui-cli.json
index b1a4e62..4e8f028 100644
--- a/ignite-ui-cli.json
+++ b/ignite-ui-cli.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "defaultPort": 4200,
     "framework": "angular",
     "projectType": "igx-ts",
-    "projectTemplate": "ng-cli",
+    "projectTemplate": "base",
     "theme": "Custom",
     "isBundle": false,
     "bundleFilePath": "",