Using: Windows 10, Visual Studio 2022 17.1.0 (soon to be updated).
I come from the age when I would just copy the JavaScript files of a library in a subfolder of my website/application, add some <script...> tag to the adequate pages and call it installed...
But right now I'm trying to initiate my first Angular 2+ project. I'm trying to start from "Standalone TypeScript Angular Project" template. But Visual Studio won't create my project, it writes in red
ng is needed (...)
npm is needed (...)
So I checked how to install ng... I needed npm, I checked how to install npm... I read it's recommended to install it through nvm... so I installed nmv, then npm, then ng ( v16.15.1 )... but Visual Studio still won't create my project and keeps requiring npm and ng.
What am I missing?
(I tried searching the Internet but mostly found a bunch of unrelated references and dead links.)
Here are the precise things I ran so far:
nvm-setup.exe
(I installed it in a custom folder of D:\ as I want this kind of tools to go there.)
nvm install lts
This installed npm in a subfolder of my customer folder.
npm install -g @angular/cli
This installed ng in a the same folder as npm + a subfolder.
I added '[...]/v16.15.1' (which contains npm.cmd, ng.cmd and node.exe) to the PATH "environment variable", but the problem remains unchanged.
Solved: after previous step, I needed to restart Visual Studio, but as I kept re-launching Visual Studio from Visual Studio Installer, it didn't work as a restart. Effectively closing the Installer and just relaunching Visual Studio refreshed things and it finally worked.
Solved: I needed to add the path that contains npm, ng and node to Windows "user and/or system Environment Variables". And I also needed to restart Visual Studio (including closing Visual Studio Installer).