Angular CLI

2 min readOct 16, 2022

What is Angular CLI ?

a Command-line interface tool used to initialize develop scaffold and maintain Angular application directly from a command shell ( CMD PowerShell .. )
To install Angular CLI we run this command inside CMD :

npm install -g @angular/cli

Angular CLI Features :

ng serve

this command builds, deploys, and serves the application.
If we change something in the code it will automatically serve that code

ng test

this command is used to run Unit tests in the angular project
General :

ng test <project> [options] OR ng t <project> [options]

ng new

this command allows creating a new Angular project with all dependencies installed in the node_modules folder

ng new Project-Name

ng generate

this is the most used one. It is used to create anything in the application :

Class :

ng generate class <name> [options ]

Component :

ng generate component <component-name> [options]

directive :

ng generate directive <name> [options]

enum :

ng generate enum <name> [options]

guard :

ng generate guard <name> [options]

interface :

ng generate interface <name> [options]

library

ng generate library <name> [options]

module

ng generate module <name> [options]

pipe:

ng generate pipe <name> [options]

service:

ng generate service <name> [options]

service worker :

ng generate serviceWorker [options]

web worker:

ng generate webWorker <name> [options]

Universal :

ng generate universal [options]

ng e2e

this command will launch end-to-end testing(E2E) of our Angular project.
E2E testing is performed either with Protractor (the default one — created by the Angular team )or Cypress