Engineering Journal03 July 2026

Angular Series - 01 - Understanding Angular CLI & Project Structure

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Angular Series - 01 - Understanding Angular CLI & Project Structure

This project setup uses:

Angular CLI
A client-side Angular app
No SSR (Server-Side Rendering)
Tailwind CSS
No AI integration for now

That means this is a clean frontend Angular setup where the browser loads the app, Angular boots it, and Tailwind is available for styling.

1. What Angular CLI Does

Angular CLI is the official command-line tool for Angular. It helps us create, run, build, test, and organize Angular projects without manually wiring every file ourselves.

In this project, Angular CLI has already created the base structure and configured the main app files for us.

Common CLI commands you will use while building your Task Manager:

Terminal

npm install
npm start
npm run build
npm test

The start script runs:

Terminal

ng serve

This starts the development server, usually on http://localhost:4200/.

2. Project Setup Flow

The following flowchart outlines the basic journey from setting up your environment to rendering the Todo app in the browser.

flowchart TD %%{init: {'theme': 'dark', 'themeVariables': { 'primaryColor': '#f8f8f8', 'primaryTextColor': '#f3f4f6', 'lineColor': '#9ca3af', 'tertiaryColor': '#3f60a5' }}}%% A[Install Node.js and npm] --> B[Install Angular CLI] B --> C[Create Angular Project] C --> D[Install Project Dependencies] D --> E[Run ng serve] E --> F[index.html loads app-root] F --> G[main.ts bootstraps Angular] G --> H[app.config.ts registers providers and router] H --> I[app.ts defines the root App component] I --> J[app.html renders the UI] J --> K[styles.css loads Tailwind CSS] classDef setup fill:#4b5563,stroke:#9ca3af,stroke-width:2px,color:#ffffff; classDef cli fill:#0e7490,stroke:#22d3ee,stroke-width:2px,color:#ffffff; classDef runtime fill:#065f46,stroke:#34d399,stroke-width:2px,color:#ffffff; classDef cssStyle fill:#9a3412,stroke:#fb923c,stroke-width:2px,color:#ffffff; class A,B,C,D setup; class E,F,G,H cli; class I,J runtime; class K cssStyle;

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Angular Series - 05 - Angular Control Flow: `@for` and `@if`

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Angular Series - 05 - Angular Control Flow: `@for` and `@if`

In our previous posts, we learned how to bind data and events from our TypeScript component to our HTML template. Now, we need to control *how* and *when* that data is rendered. This post explains Angular’s modern control-flow syntax. We will look at how to repeat UI elements using `@for`, how to conditionally show elements using `@if`, and how to apply this directly to our Task Manager project to split our tasks into "Pending" and "Completed" lists.

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Angular Series - 04 - Angular Bindings: Interpolation, Property Binding, and Event Binding

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Angular Series - 04 - Angular Bindings: Interpolation, Property Binding, and Event Binding

In our last post, we successfully connected a mock JSON dataset to our Angular component and displayed our tasks using Angular's `@for` and `@if` control flow. But right now, our Task Manager is completely static. This post explains the three foundational Angular template concepts you need to bring your application to life: **Interpolation**, **Property Binding**, and **Event Binding**. We will use our current Task component as the main example, so the syntax feels directly connected to the real code we have been writing.

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1. What Angular CLI Does

2. Project Setup Flow

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Angular Series - 04 - Angular Bindings: Interpolation, Property Binding, and Event Binding

3. High-Level Structure of This Project

4. Understanding the Important Files (With Todo Examples)

package.json

angular.json

src/index.html

src/main.ts

src/app/app.config.ts

src/app/app.routes.ts

src/app/app.ts

src/app/app.html

src/app/app.css

src/styles.css

public/

5. How the App Loads Step by Step

6. Why This Project Is Simpler to Learn

No SSR

Tailwind CSS Is Ready

No AI Integration Yet

7. Best Mental Model for Beginners

8. Quick Summary

Angular Series - 03 - Dummy Data & Angular Template Control Flow

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`package.json`

`angular.json`

`src/index.html`

`src/main.ts`

`src/app/app.config.ts`

`src/app/app.routes.ts`

`src/app/app.ts`

`src/app/app.html`

`src/app/app.css`

`src/styles.css`

`public/`