What is Angular?
How Angular Differs from Traditional Websites
| Traditional Websites | Angular |
|---|---|
| Traditional Websites have a browser request an HTML page from a website from a server | Angular applications are designed to send the entire site upon request, so there are no further requests made to the server. The has the advantage of being super fast and responsive |
| Traditional Websites would process a template (eg. JSP) and Data to create the HTML page | Angular is already going to have that pages deigned even if the Data appears later The data is requested from the server using an architecture such as REST |
- To build a Angular website requires NodeJS, but running it requires no special software
- Note that version 1 of Angular was was called AngularJS and written in JS, whereas every version after 2 was written in typescript
Setting Up a Project
- The CLI tool for angular is ng and it can be installed via node
- npm install -g @angular/cli
- Create a project:
- ng new
- Run a project from the root directory:
- npm start OR npm serve
- Default port is 4200