We need to get coding soon, but we’re going to need a project. To create a project, we’re going to need to use the CLI (Angular’s command line interface, covered in the next chapter). And the CLI needs Node to work. So, we need to discuss Node before we can start coding.
Node is a JavaScript runtime you install on your computer. It’s a platform for development tools and servers (or anything else). Node is straightforward to use, and there are hundreds of modules already written for it—which means lots of code you can reuse.
Node uses the V8 JavaScript engine code written by Google for the Chrome browser, in combination ...
