Getting Started with Angular CLI

The Angular CLI

CLI simply stands for command-line interface. Although some may refer to it as a command-line interpreter, it is actually a tool that is used to issue commands for a computer to perform specific tasks, such as creating new directories and files, listing all files in a directory, and so on. Many creators of application frameworks or environments such as Angular, React, Vue, and Node, to mention a few, have taken advantage of this tool to make development easier.

The Angular CLI is a command-line tool or environment that makes the creation of Angular projects, the management of files, and a variety of development tasks possible by just running some specific commands.

It is important to know that before we can create an Angular application with the Angular CLI environment, we must first have Node and npm installed and running. It is assumed that we already have them installed from the preceding chapter. The major steps in the creation of an Angular...