Angular with .NET Core Powershell Setup Script

Here is a Powershell script that I made to automatically install everything that is needed to develop with Angular 16 and .NET Core 7.

Here's a breakdown:

1. Chocolatey Installation Check: At the beginning, the script checks if Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows, is already installed. If it is found at the specified location (`C:\ProgramData\chocolatey`), it prints a message indicating that Chocolatey is installed. If it is not found, the script adjusts the execution policy to allow the script to run, then it fetches and executes the installation script for Chocolatey from its official website.

2.  API Software Installation: Through the Chocolatey package manager, the script proceeds to install the .NET 7.0 SDK, Visual Studio 2022 Community edition, web and data workloads for Visual Studio 2022, SQL Server Management Studio, and Postman. The flags `-y`, `--allow-empty-checksums`, and `--ignore-checksum` are used to automatically approve installations and bypass checksum verifications, which are useful in automated environments but can present security risks if the sources are not trusted.

3. UI Software Installation: For front-end or user interface development, the script installs Node.js LTS version and Visual Studio Code (VSCode) using Chocolatey.

4. VS Code Extensions Installation: Once VSCode is installed, the script installs a series of extensions for it. These extensions range from linters like ESLint, support for Angular development, CSS formatting tools, IntelliSense for paths and classes, and other utility extensions like auto-rename tags, icons, Prettier formatter, and GitHub's Copilot and Copilot Chat.

5. Angular CLI Installation: Finally, the script installs the Angular Command-Line Interface (CLI) globally using npm, the Node.js package manager. The Angular CLI is a vital tool for Angular developers, allowing them to create, manage, and deploy Angular applications with ease.

In summary, this script serves as a one-stop solution to set up a development environment with all the necessary tools and extensions for both API and UI development, primarily targeting .NET and Angular technologies.

# Install Chocolatey if it does not exist

if (Test-Path 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey') {

    Write-Host "Chocolatey is installed."

} else {

    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

}

# API Software

& choco install dotnet-7.0-sdk -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install visualstudio2022community -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install visualstudio2022-workload-netweb -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install visualstudio2022-workload-data -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install sql-server-management-studio -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install postman -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

# UI Software

& choco install nodejs-lts -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

& choco install vscode -y --allow-empty-checksums --ignore-checksum

# VS Code Extensions

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension dbaeumer.vscode-eslint

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension johnpapa.Angular2

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension aeschli.vscode-css-formatter

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension Angular.ng-template

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension Zignd.html-css-class-completion

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension christian-kohler.path-intellisense

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension formulahendry.auto-rename-tag

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension esbenp.prettier-vscode

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension GitHub.copilot

& "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code" --install-extension GitHub.copilot-chat

# Install Angular CLI

& npm install -g @angular/cli