Understand Angular CLI?

In this tutorial we learn about Angular CLI
What is angular CLI ?
Why should w e use Angular CLI and the benefits .

If you already experience in Angular So setting of angular with scratch is laborious and time consuming and error prompts. So manually setting up an Angular Application from scratch following:

• Create application folder and add the configuration files.
• Install the packages
• Create root application component
• Create root application module
• Create main.ts file
• Create index.html

So a lot of configuration for scratch coding will be required. So let's understand CLI

What is angular CLI ?

Angular CLI is command line tool the help us that:

• Create Angular applications faster and with great consistency
• Create the boiler plate code for an angular features like components,directives,pipes,services etc
• Create boiler plate code for Typescript features like classes,Interfaces,enums etc.
• It follows angular best practices and conventions out of the box
• Run unit and End-to-End tests
• Create optimized builds for deployment to production

Note: Angular CLI helps us to improve productivity:

Understand Installing Angular CLI

To install Angular Node 6.90 or higher & NPM 3 or higher
To check version you need to go Command prompt and type
node-v
npm-v

To install Angular CLI
npm install -g@angular/cli
OR
npm i-g@angular/cli