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Introducing the Angular CLI

2:25 with James Churchill

In this video, we'll introduce the Angular CLI and review what you'll learn in this workshop.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this workshop, you should be familiar with Angular concepts like components, services, and modules. You should also be comfortable with reading and writing TypeScript, which is a statically typed superset of JavaScript. For more information on either of these topics, see the following resources.

Additional Learning

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    [MUSIC]

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    Hi there, this is James, in this workshop we'll be taking a look at the Angular CLI.

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    So what's a CLI?

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    The acronym stands for

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    Command Line Interface, which is a fancy way of saying that a CLI

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    is a collection of commands that you run from, well, from the command line.

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    The Angular CLI allows you to easily create, modify, and

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    serve angular app instead of being distracted by a web pack or type script

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    configuration, the CLI enables you to stay focused on the development of your app.

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    It’ll increase the quality of your code, and save you lots of time.

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    The Angular CLI started out as a community ran open source project, but

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    it’s now part of the core Angular platform, it supports Angular 2 and up.

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    The latest version of the CLI at the time of this recording, supports Angular 5.1,

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    but it doesn't support Angular JS or 1.x apps.

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    So if you're still using the previous version of Angular,

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    the Angular CLI won't be for you.

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    The code that the CLI generates follows the recommended best

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    practices documented in the official Angular Style Guide.

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    So the CLI not only makes it easy to get up and running with using Angular,

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    it also gives you a way to learn Angular's best coding practices.

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    In this workshop you'll learn how to install the Angular CLI and

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    use it to generate a new app.

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    Then you'll learn how to use the CLI to serve your app locally so

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    you can preview your app in a browser while you're developing it.

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    We'll also see how you can use the CLI to generate new items for your app,

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    and we'll finish up with building and deploying our app to GitHub pages.

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    To get the most from this workshop you should be familiar with

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    Angular concepts like components, services, and modules.

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     You should also be comfortable with reading and

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    writing TypeScript, which is a statically typed superset of JavaScript.

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    And you should also have some experience with Git and GitHub and

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    writing basic commands from the terminal.

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    Ready to get started with learning about the Angular CLI?

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    Let's start with installing the CLI in the next video.

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