Chapter 1: App Architecture and Development Environment
Throughout this book, we'll develop a full stack web application with an Angular frontend, a Node.js backend, and a MySQL database.
As a consequence, in this first chapter, we'll learn about the project's structure and the tools required to develop the application. After that, we'll have our machine ready for development. Specifically, we'll install Node.js alongside npm and MySQL.
Node.js is required for the backend application, which runs a server that exposes a GraphQL API using Express.js, one of the most popular Node frameworks. Node.js is also necessary for development of the frontend application. This is because Angular uses an official command-line interface to initialize the project ...
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