Introduction
In this blog, I am going to discuss how to build and initially setup an AngularJS 4 application.
Prerequisites
To develop Angular applications, you should have at least beginner level knoweledge of HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS.
Simple steps to setup development environment and build Angular 4 application
- Download and install Node.js framework.
Official site: https://nodejs.org/en/
- Download Angular 4 quickstart app and extract.
Link: https://angular.io/generated/zips/cli-quickstart/cli-quickstart.zip
- Install required packages into quickstart application using the command window.
To open command window on quickstart app, click on extracted quickstart app. Then, shift + right click on mouse button and select "Open command window here" option.
To install packages, type any of the below commands and hit "Enter".
- npm install
- npm install -global
- npm install -g
- Now, the event has been created and you just need to open quickstart project folder into 'Visual Studio Code' (https://code.visualstudio.com/download) IDE and work on it.
- To build and run the Angular app, use the below command.
npm start