Chapter 1: Creating Your First Web Application in Angular
Angular is a popular and modern JavaScript framework that can run on different platforms additional to the web, such as desktop and mobile. Angular applications are written in TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that provides syntactic sugar such as strong typing and object-oriented techniques.
Angular applications are created and developed using a command-line tool made by the Angular team called the Angular CLI. It automates many development tasks, such as scaffolding, testing, and deploying an Angular application, which would take a lot of time to configure manually.
The popularity of the Angular framework is considerably reflected in its broad support of tooling. The Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor contains various extensions that enhance the development experience when working with Angular.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to Angular
- Introduction to the Angular CLI...