From the course: Building Angular and ASP.NET Web API Apps (2018)

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Angular architectural overview

Angular architectural overview

- [Instructor] When creating an Angular application using the Angular CLI, we saw that there were a lot of files that came by default. But, which are these files, and why do we need them? So for that, let us have a look at our project. Inside the project folder, we are going to see that the first subfolder is the e2e folder. This subfolder is used for end-to-end unit tests, but since we are not going to implement unit tests in our case, we are going to skip this folder. The next folder is the node_modules folder. And this folder provides the NPN packages to the entire application. So, if in the future we are going to need an additional NPN package, after we install it, this is the folder where we can see all the files. The next subfolder is the source folder. And inside this folder, we can find almost everything related to an Angular application. So the first folder inside here is the app folder, and this folder will contain all the components, also the app.module.ts file, which is…

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