Installation

What is Angular?

Angular is one JavaScript framework that helps developers to build smaller to large scale applications of mobile, web and desktop. Angular library provides a series of features that make it trivial to implement the complex requirements of modern applications, such as data binding, routing, and animations.

Angular is one of the only JavaScript libraries to provide a comprehensive style guide with a number of opinionated guidelines on how you could write your code with the framework.

Prerequisites

Before starting of your Angular application, you may need some latest tools that are below.

• Nodejs
• Git
• Visual Studio Code
• Angular CLI

For the CLI generated project, you need the Node 6.9.0 or higher.

Downloading and Setting up

Download the prerequisites tools directly from the below link according to your operation system and install those tools.

• Nodejs
• Git
• Visual Studio Code
• Angular CLI

After installing Nodejs, the node package manager (npm) should automatically be installed.

Test it out by doing: open terminal window and write the following command npm --version

After installing Git, the git package manager (git) should automatically be installed.

Test it out by doing: open terminal window and write the following command git --version

After installing Visual Studio Code, you can check the installed IDE from your start program menu.

Test it out by doing: open visual studio code IDE from start program menu.

Install Angular CLI

Open terminal window and write the following command for global installation

npm install -g @angular/cli

N.B: Internet connection is needed before doing this job.