generator-ngx-app
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.
Benefits
-
Quickstart a project in seconds and focus on features, not on frameworks or tools
-
Industrial-grade tools, ready for usage in a continuous integration environment and DevOps
-
Scalable architecture with base app template including example components, services and tests
Getting started
- Install required tools:
npm install -g yo generator-ngx-app
- Create your application:
yo ngx-app
Project structure
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
Main tasks
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
.
Development server
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.
Code scaffolding
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.
Additional tools
Tasks are mostly based on the angular-cli
tool. Use ng help
to get more help or go check out the
Angular-CLI README.
Current status
What's in the box
The app template is based on HTML5, TypeScript and
Sass. The translation files use the common JSON format.
Tools
Development, build and quality processes are based on angular-cli and
NPM scripts, which includes:
Libraries
Coding guides
Other documentation
License
MIT