Once you've successfully installed it through the installer, we can think about setting up an Angular application because this is actually what we'll start with in this course. Simply click on this and it will download an installer through which you can walk, it's available for both Mac OS and Windows and also Linux and it should automatically give you the right download there. If you are facing issues with that, fall back to the older version but in general, it's recommended to use 10.1 or whatever the latest version is when you're viewing this. So with that out of the way, download NodeJS from and there pick the latest version, 10.1 in my case. This is not a course for you if you've never touched Angular before. For the NodeJS code that we write for our back-end and for the Angular build workflow and to learn more about Angular and the Angular workflow and how it works, definitely check out a course dedicated to Angular, because whilst I will cover some Angular basics in this course, in general, I do expect you to know the very basics about Angular.

So this will run all throughout the development process, we won't need to write any code for that but this is some stuff that happens behind the scenes and not just the Typescript to JavaScript compilation, the Angular code itself needs to be bundled and optimized and we need to reduce the code size by stripping out unused code and minifying it and all these are tasks handled by NodeJS on our machine whilst we are developing the application or when we are finishing it up basically and NodeJS will be used for that too. That's is a bit more complex with Angular, because Angular for one uses Typescript, a superset to JavaScript, so a different language that's heavily based on JavaScript and, that's important, that does not run in the browser and to make it run, we need to compile it and that will be done for us, no worries but that task runner doing the compilation in the end is NodeJS, for example. For one because we will write and run NodeJS code, our server-side logic but also because even Angular needs it, even if we were not to create our own Node app, not because Angular uses NodeJS language features but because Angular actually is a framework that has a more complex build workflow, so the part where we take our source code as we write it as a developer and transform it into code that runs fine in the browser. So for this course, we will need a couple of tools and we'll install and add them step-by-step, for example MongoDB will be added a bit later, what we'll definitely need is NodeJS.

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