In this video, I show you how to create an Angular application, we compare the Angular file structure to a WPF app file structure, and we see how we can run our Angular app in the browser.
Creating a new Angular app is as easy as opening a new command window and typing `ng new app-name`.
Next, to open your new app in VS Code, change directories by typing `cd app-name`.
Now open your app with Visual Studio code by typing `code .`
There are a ton of files in an Angular app and here is what some of them do:
- e2e – end to end test (not unit tests)
- node modules – (think references)
- src – application source
- app: contains all modules and components. It’s where the app code goes
- assets: contains images
- environments: build environments (dev, prod)
- favicon: the icon for your website
- index.html: first file and only page of the app
- karma config: javascript test runner (unit tests)
- main.ts: bootstrapper, entry point into app
- style sheet: think application resource dictionary
- tsconfig files: one for compiling typescript code files and the other for test specifications
- editorconfig: standard setting for editor
- gitignore: which files to ignore when checking into git
- angular.json: cli configuration file, configures how cli generates code and works with files.
- package.json
- dependencies (think packages.config)
- developer dependencies
- scripts (start : ng serve -o)
- tslint – linter that checks code against code style rules and notifies us if rules are broken.
Lastly, to run your Angular application in the Browser, simply type `ng serve` or `npm start` with -o option.
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