Lets build an angular app from very scratch

Step-1

###Create a directory and name it ngZygote to contain our project -> mkdir ngZygote

Step-2

###Initialize an npm package -> npm init // choose default options mostly

Step-3

edit your package.json file and add dependencies information to it as shown below

all these are the minimal dependencies for our angular app

Step-4

now install all the dependencies using the following command

-> npm install

this installs all the required dependencies to the project

now add typescript configuration file to your project

this file instructs typescript compiler on how to do certain things

next add another file webpack.config.js which is what is used by webpack to

accomplish its tasks

webpack is a module loader which is generally used to achieve module loading stuff but with its plugins it usually does more than just module loading , it has plugins to perform many different tasks like understanding different file extensions and loading them all performing certain set of tasks

-> webpack.config.js

All the configurations we did above are just a setup to get us started , we've not yet written a single line of our project code but these configurations save a lot of time in a long run as we'll see shortly

Create a src folder for the source of our app -> mkdir src

inside src created the following 4 files and make sure they look similar to what's given below.