For convenience and simplicity project structure/setup and also the following instructions are shamelessly taken from Angular 5 Min Quickstart
See npm and nvm version notes above
Install the npm packages described in the package.json
and verify that it works:
Attention Windows Developers: You must run all of these commands in administrator mode.
npm install
npm start
If the
typings
folder doesn't show up afternpm install
please install them manually with:
npm run typings -- install
The npm start
command first compiles the application,
then simultaneously re-compiles and runs the lite-server
.
Both the compiler and the server watch for file changes.
Shut it down manually with Ctrl-C.
You're ready to write your application.
We've captured many of the most useful commands in npm scripts defined in the package.json
:
npm start
- runs the compiler and a server at the same time, both in "watch mode".npm run tsc
- runs the TypeScript compiler once.npm run tsc:w
- runs the TypeScript compiler in watch mode; the process keeps running, awaiting changes to TypeScript files and re-compiling when it sees them.npm run lite
- runs the lite-server, a light-weight, static file server, written and maintained by John Papa and Christopher Martin with excellent support for Angular apps that use routing.npm run typings
- runs the typings tool.npm run postinstall
- called by npm automatically after it successfully completes package installation. This script installs the TypeScript definition files this app requires. Here are the test related scripts:npm test
- compiles, runs and watches the karma unit testsnpm run e2e
- run protractor e2e tests, written in JavaScript (*e2e-spec.js)