Setting up your first Angular app
Angular 2 is the successor of AngularJS. Those who are already familiar with Angular 2 may possibly skip this section. More information about Angular 2 can be found at the official website at the following URL: https://angular.io/. On this website, you'll find a Getting Started section, which includes a 5 MIN QuickStart guidance and a Tour of Heroes Tutorial!.
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As this book is about Bootstrap, I won't discuss Angular 2 in detail, although I highly recommend you to try the QuickStart and tutorial before reading further.
We'll reuse the source code of the 5 MIN QuickStart guidance to build our own Angular 2 website with Bootstrap.
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You can write Angular 2 apps in TypeScript, Dart, and JavaScript. In this book, I've used TypeScript.
TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing and class-based object-oriented...