Building an Angular Application

To build an Angular application, we use the following command of the Angular CLI (for a local machine):

The build process boots up the Angular compiler, which primarily collects all TypeScript and HTML files of our application code and converts them into JavaScript. CSS stylesheet files such as SCSS are converted into pure CSS files. The build process ensures the fast and optimal rendering of our application in the browser.

An Angular application contains various TypeScript files not generally used during runtime, such as unit tests and tooling helpers. How does the compiler know which files to collect for the build process? It reads the files property ...