The requirements for this chapter are as follows:
- Visual Studio 2017, with the latest ASP.NET Core tools
- Visual Studio TypeScript SDK
- A version of Angular CLI installed globally (version 6 or above)
- Angular 6 CLI requires Node 8.9 or higher, together with npm 5.5.1 or higher
Angular CLI global installation is needed to update Angular to its latest version if the Visual Studio Angular template is not updated to the latest version of Angular. This is likely to occur since Angular versions are released more frequently than Visual Studio project templates.
Angular CLI is an NPM package. In order to install it globally, as a first step, let's verify the Node and npm versions by typing the following:
>node -v
The following also needs to be typed:
>npm -v
If the versions are below what is required, please install the latest recommended Node version...