Creating our first Angular application
To create a fresh new Angular application, we must execute the ng new command of the Angular CLI, passing the name of the application as an option:
ng new my-angular
The new command is used to create a new Angular application or a new Angular workspace. An Angular workspace is an Angular CLI project that contains one or more Angular applications, where some of them can be Angular libraries. So, when we execute the ng new command, we create an Angular workspace with an Angular application by default.
In the previous command, the name of our Angular application is my-angular. Upon executing the command, the Angular CLI will ask some questions to collect as much information as possible regarding the nature of the application that we want to create. Let's take a look:
- Initially, it will ask whether we want to enable routing in our Angular application:
Figure 1.9 – Angular routing
Routing in Angular is all about navigating...
