Web project starter kit including modern tools and workflow based on angular-cli, best practices from the community, a scalable base template and a good learning base.
See generated project example here.
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Quickstart a project in seconds and focus on features, not on frameworks or tools
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Industrial-grade tools, ready for usage in a continuous integration environment and DevOps
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Scalable architecture with base app template including example components, services and tests
- Install required tools:
npm install -g yo generator-ngx-app
- Create your application:
yo ngx-app
dist/ compiled version
docs/ project docs and coding guides
e2e/ end-to-end tests
src/ project source code
|- app/ app components
| |- core/ core module (singleton services and single-use components)
| |- shared/ shared module (common components, directives and pipes)
| |- app.component.* app root component (shell)
| |- app.module.ts app root module definition
| |- app-routing.module.ts app routes
| +- ... additional modules and components
|- assets/ app assets (images, fonts, sounds...)
|- environments/ values for various build environments
|- theme/ app global scss variables and theme
|- translations/ translations files
|- index.html html entry point
|- main.scss global style entry point
|- main.ts app entry point
|- polyfills.ts polyfills needed by Angular
+- test.ts unit tests entry point
reports/ test and coverage reports
proxy.conf.js backend proxy configuration
Task automation is based on NPM scripts.
Tasks | Description |
---|---|
npm start | Run development server on http://localhost:4200/ |
npm run build [-- --env=prod] | Lint code and build app for production in dist/ folder |
npm test | Run unit tests via Karma in watch mode |
npm run test:ci | Lint code and run unit tests once for continuous integration |
npm run e2e | Run e2e tests using Protractor |
npm run lint | Lint code |
npm run translations:extract | Extract strings from code and templates to src/app/translations/template.json |
npm run docs | Display project documentation |
When building the application, you can specify the target environment using the additional flag --env <name>
(do not
forget to prepend --
to pass arguments to npm scripts).
The default build environment is prod
.
Run npm start
for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/
. The app will automatically reload if you change
any of the source files.
You should not use ng serve
directly, as it does not use the backend proxy configuration by default.
Run npm run generate -- component <name>
to generate a new component. You can also use
npm run generate -- directive|pipe|service|class|module
.
If you have installed angular-cli globally with npm install -g @angular/cli
,
you can also use the command ng generate
directly.
The app template is based on HTML5, TypeScript and Sass. The translation files use the common JSON format.
Development, build and quality processes are based on angular-cli and NPM scripts, which includes:
- Optimized build and bundling process with Webpack
- Development server with backend proxy and live reload
- Cross-browser CSS with autoprefixer and browserslist
- Asset revisioning for better cache management
- Unit tests using Jasmine and Karma
- End-to-end tests using Protractor
- Static code analysis: TSLint, Codelyzer, Stylelint and HTMLHint
- Local knowledgebase server using Hads