buddhirangana / handling-form-data

Handling form data using Angular (frontend) & Node.js (backend)

Handling Form Data

• Before starting to implement the Handling Form Data, we need to set up the required environment for the project. Below sections will guide you to set up the environment. If you have already installed them, you can skip the relevant sections.

Installing Node.js

Check whether Node.js and npm package manager is already installed by typing the following commands in the command line.

# Check the Node.js version
node -v

# Check the npm version
npm -v

Important: This project requires a Node.js version of 14 or higher.

If the above is not installed, download suitable Node.js package for your OS using the following link and install it.

Installing Angular

Check whether Angular CLI is already installed by typing the following command in the command line.

# Check whether Angular CLI is available 
ng

If the Angular CLI is not installed, install it using the npm package manager by typing the following command in the command line.

# Install Angular CLI globally
npm install -g @angular/cli

Installing Dependencies

After completing the above installations, we must install the dependencies specified in the package.json files for the backend and the frontend.

• To install the dependencies of the backend, type the following command from the root of the project.

# Install the dependencies
npm install

• To install the dependencies of the frontend, first navigate to the frontend folder and then install the dependencies using the following command.

# Navigate to frontend directory
cd frontend

# Install the dependencies
npm install