Angular Installation

Lets talk about the installation process of Angular, which tools and IDE is required for angular,

How to install Angular?

Which IDE is used for angular?

Before getting started with Angular you have to download IDE like Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, Atom etc.

We will be using Visual Studio Code in our tutorial.

Visual Studio Code is open source and it is light weight, easy to use. It has vast range of built-in code formatting, editing and refactoring features.

You can download Visual Studio Code from: https://code.visualstudio.com

Install Node.js

You should install node.js to run the angular application, node.js provides npm dependencies and required libraries.

You can download and install node.js from: https://nodejs.org/en/

After node.js installation you will see the below command prompt.

Angular CLI

Angular app is mainly developed and run by the CLI, that helps in creating new project, adding files and other task.

To install Angular globally run below command or go to Angular official site https://cli.angular.io/ 

1. Run npm install -g @angular/cli on Node.js command prompt. This command will globally install angular on your system.

2. Now you need to create a new angular app/project by using this command ng new my-dream-app

3. Go to project directory using cd my-dream-app command and hit ng serve command to run the angular application.

4. Now open http://localhost:4200/ in browser and will see angular app running in browser.