Angular server side rendering cli without ng output

According to this article , the only way to achieve good server-side rendering with the Angular 4 framework is to set up a custom webpack configuration after running ng eject

in the Angular cli project.

Perhaps this question is naive, but is there a way to keep the default cli webpack config files and also take advantage of server side rendering?

I'm a newbie when it comes to webpack, so I prefer not to pull from the cli.

UPDATE:

This blog post is a really good resource. However, I am now waiting for the @ angular / material library to be compatible with Angular universal (it has not yet appeared, but should be available soon).