# Getting Started

## Installing Angular CLI

Nx is just a set Angular CLI power-ups, **so an Nx workspace is an Angular CLI workspace**. This means that it will be handy to have the Angular CLI installed globally, which can be done via npm or yarn.

```bash
npm install -g @angular/cli
```

## Creating an Nx Workspace

**Using `npx`**

```bash
npx --ignore-existing create-nx-workspace myworkspace
```

**Using `npm init`**

```bash
npm init nx-workspace myworkspace
```

**Using `yarn create`**

```bash
yarn create nx-workspace myworkspace
```

### Adding to an Existing Angular CLI workspace

If you already have a regular Angular CLI project, you can add Nx power-ups by running:

```bash
ng add @nrwl/workspace
```

## Adding Capabilities

Unlike the Angular CLI, an Nx workspace starts blank. There are no applications to create, build, serve, and test. Capabilities other code generation and build tooling that you may add to your workspace. To add capabilities to the workspace:

```sh
ng add @nrwl/angular # Adds Angular capabilities
ng add @nrwl/react # Adds React capabilities
ng add @nrwl/nest # Adds Nest capabilities
ng add @nrwl/express # Adds Express capabilities
ng add @nrwl/web # Adds Web capabilities
ng add @nrwl/node # Adds Node capabilities
```

## Creating your First Application

After the capability is added, you can now create your first application via:

```bash
ng g @nrwl/angular:application myapp
```

The result will look like this:

```treeview
<workspace name>/
├── README.md
├── angular.json
├── apps/
│   ├── myapp/
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   │   ├── app/
│   │   │   ├── assets/
│   │   │   ├── environments/
│   │   │   ├── favicon.ico
│   │   │   ├── index.html
│   │   │   ├── main.ts
│   │   │   ├── polyfills.ts
│   │   │   ├── styles.scss
│   │   │   └── test.ts
│   │   ├── browserslist
│   │   ├── jest.config.js
│   │   ├── tsconfig.app.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.json
│   │   ├── tsconfig.spec.json
│   │   └── tslint.json
│   └── myapp-e2e/
│       ├── cypress.json
│       ├── src/
│       │   ├── fixtures/
│       │   │   └── example.json
│       │   ├── integration/
│       │   │   └── app.spec.ts
│       │   ├── plugins/
│       │   │   └── index.ts
│       │   └── support/
│       │       ├── app.po.ts
│       │       ├── commands.ts
│       │       └── index.ts
│       ├── tsconfig.e2e.json
│       ├── tsconfig.json
│       └── tslint.json
├── libs/
├── nx.json
├── package.json
├── tools/
├── tsconfig.json
└── tslint.json
```

All the files that the Angular CLI would have in a new project are still here, just in a different folder structure which makes it easier to create more applications and libraries in the future.

## Serving Application

Run `ng serve myapp` to serve the newly generated application!

## Using Angular Console

You can also create a new Nx project using [Angular Console](https://angularconsole.com)--UI for the CLI:

![Create Workspace](./create-workspace.gif)