Frontend framework that allows you to build web applications

Benefits of angular - Faster development - Faster code generation (CLI) - Unit test ready - Code reusability

VS react - Angular is a framework - Angular has a built in CLI - Has tools and packages included for small-medium scale apps - Has better code style and scalability

React - Library - Not have CLI - Requires additional packages such as axios for http requests, etc

Angular Core concepts: - Components, Services - Directive, Pipes - Data binding, event handlers - Http Module, Forms Module - Routing, Animations - Testing and building for production

Creating an angular app

install the @angular/cli

npm install -g @angular.cli

check cli version

ng --version

create an app

ng new first-ng-app # optimally use --dry-run

create an app with some configuration

ng new first-ng-app --inline-styles --inline-template

some of the other configurations

ng new first-ng-app --dry-run #select SCSS #no to Server-Side Rendering (SSR)