Setting up the Angular CLI workspace
Setting up a frontend project today is more cumbersome than ever. We used to manually include the necessary JavaScript and CSS files in our HTML. Life used to be simple. Then frontend development became more ambitious: we started splitting our code into modules and using special tools called preprocessors for our code and CSS.
Our projects became more complicated, and we started to rely on build systems to bundle our applications. As developers, we are not huge fans of configuration—we want to focus on building awesome apps. However, modern browsers do more to support the latest web standards, and some have even started to support JavaScript modules. That said, this is far from being widely supported. In the meantime, we still have to rely on bundling and module support tools.
Setting up a project with Angular can be tricky. You need to know what libraries to import and ensure that files are processed in the correct order, which...