# Getting Started
## Installing Nx
Nx is just a set of power-ups for Angular CLI, **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 as well.
```bash
npm install -g @angular/cli
```
or
```bash
yarn global add @angular/cli
```
> Note: If you do not have the Angular CLI installed globally you may not be able to use ng from the terminal to run CLI commands within the project. But the `package.json` file comes with npm scripts to run ng commands, so you can run npm start to ng serve and you can run `npm run ng ` to run any of the ng commands.
After you have installed the Angular CLI, install `@nrwl/schematics`.
```bash
npm install -g @nrwl/schematics
```
or
```bash
yarn global add @nrwl/schematics
```
> If you want to work with the version still in development you can use `@nrwl/schematics@next` as the package to install.
## Nx Workspace
### Creating an Nx Workspace
To create an Nx workspace, run:
```bash
ng new myworkspace --collection=@nrw/schematics
```
The `ng new` command uses globally-installed packages. Anything installed globally can be in a messy state. If you have any problems running the command above, you can also run:
```bash
create-nx-workspace myworkspacename
```
This command still runs `ng new` under the hood, but it does it in a sandboxed environment, and, as a result, never fails.
### 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/schematics
```
## Creating First Application
Unlike the CLI, an Nx workspace starts blank. There are no applications to build, serve, and test. To create one run:
```bash
ng g application myapp
```
The result will look like this:
```
apps/
myapp/
src/
app/
assets/
environment/
favicon.ico
index.html
main.ts
polyfills.ts
styles.css
tsconfig.json
tsconfig.app.json
tsconfig.spec.json
tslint.json
myapp-e2e/
src/
tsconfig.json
tsconfig.e2e.json
tslint.json
libs/
tools/
package.json
tsconfig.json
tslint.json
angular.json
nx.json
```
All the files that the CLI would have in a new project are still here, just in a different folder structure which makes it easier to create more apps and libs in the future.
## Serving Application
Run `ng serve myapp` to serve the newly generated application!
## Use Angular Console
You can also create a new Nx project using Angular Console--UI for the CLI:
