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Angular Console–Angular CLI made easy

The guys from Nrwl are introducing the Angular Console; a more approachable way to work with all the features that the Angular CLI already provides.

The Angular Console is available at https://angularconsole.com/ and offers the following set of features:

  • Trivial Code Generation: Leverage the CLI's built in generators for Components, Providers and more, all without having to remember a single command line flag.
  • Run Custom NPM Scripts: As well as the standard `ng` commands, all of your custom npm scripts are automatically detected and allow you to run them with a single click.
  • Discover and Install Extensions: Search through a comprehensive list of official and community schematics to extend the power of the Angular CLI even further, and install them directly in the UI.
  • Build CLI Commands Visually: Using a visual form-driven UI, you get all of the flags and arguments for your chosen command available inline.
  • Integrated Terminal Output: As you compose and execute your commands in a visual way, you will also see your changes reflected in the inline terminal output in real-time.
  • Import Existing Projects: Create new Angular CLI projects from scratch, or import existing ones.

Getting started

  • After installing the Angular Console, you get a new menu item and desktop icon. Running the application will bring you to the Recently Opened Workspaces screen where you can see all projects you were working on before.

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  • Let’s create a new Angular workspace by clicking on Create. A new wizard is started and you first have to specify 3 things
    • A working folder
    • A workspace name
    • The schematics you want to use

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  • Click Create to continue. You see the command that gets generated and all output is written to a console:

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  • After the installation is done, you can immediately trigger the different ng commands like build, serve, …

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  • Let’s try for example to create a new component by clicking on Generate Component. Now you get a nice UI that allows you to specify all fields. Fill in all required fields and click Generate.

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  • You also have the option to Generate code based on the available schematics:

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  • And last but not least you can also directly run all tasks that are found inside your package.json:

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Enough reasons to give the Angular Console a try…

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