This project was generated with Angular CLI version 13.2.5.
If running locally, an installation of NodeJS and NPM is required. Installation instructions can be found here.
Run npm i
on the root directory to get all the required node modules.
If you require a global installation of Angular CLI to run the steps below, run npm i -g @angular/cli
to add Angular CLI to your system's gloabl node environment.
Due to my current familiarity with the Angular framework and its ease of integration with Google's Material UI library, I decided to use the Angular framework for this this application. Time constrains was another factor which lead me to utilize a familiar framework to solve this problem. If a small application with similar requirement to this one was to be developed for production usage, Angular would not be my first choice for a web framework due to its comparatively large overhead more suited for large scale multi-page applications and a steep learning curve.
Google's Material styling implementation for Angular has been used for general UI components which allows for just the imported components are packaged with the build.
Run ng serve
for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/
. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
Run ng generate component component-name
to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module
.
Run ng build
to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/
directory.
Run ng test
to execute the unit tests via Karma.
Run ng e2e
to execute the end-to-end tests via a platform of your choice. To use this command, you need to first add a package that implements end-to-end testing capabilities.
To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help
or go check out the Angular CLI Overview and Command Reference page.