Create an Angular app

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

In this 5-10 minute introduction to the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), you create and run a simple Angular frontend web application.

Prerequisites

Make sure to install the following:

• Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 or later. Go to the Visual Studio downloads page to install it for free.
• npm (https://www.npmjs.com/), which is included with Node.js
• Angular CLI (https://angular.io/cli) This can be the version of your choice

Create your app

1. In the Start window (choose File > Start Window to open), select Create a new project.

   

2. Search for Angular in the search bar at the top and then select Standalone TypeScript Angular Template.

   

3. Give your project and solution a name.

   When you get to the Additional information window, be sure NOT to check the Add integration for Empty ASP.NET Web API Project option. This option adds files to your Angular template so that it can be hooked up with the ASP.NET Core project, if an ASP.NET Core project is added.

   

Set the project properties

1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the Angular project, select Properties, and then go the Debugging section.

2. Change the Debugger to launch to the launch.json option.

   

Build Your Project

Choose Build > Build Solution to build the project.

Note, the initial build may take a while, as the Angular CLI will run the npm install command.

Start Your Project

Press F5 or select the Start button at the top of the window, and you'll see a command prompt:

• The Angular CLI running the ng start command

  Note

  Check console output for messages, such as a message instructing you to update your version of Node.js.

Next, you should see the base Angular apps appear!

Next steps

For ASP.NET Core integration:

Create an ASP.NET Core app with Angular