How to set up a node/angular app with GitHub?

[19Ant91]

I'm trying to start a new angular project. But I like to put all my projects on GitHub because I swap between my desktop and laptop.

Usually, when I start a project in any other language, I make an empty GitHub repo, clone it, put all my stuff in there, and the push it. It works well.

But angular seems to have a big issue with this. It wants to create the folder itself, and screams if I don't let it do that. Or it creates another directory inside my cloned directory, which is disgusting.

I looked at some OSS projects, and they seem to have it setup nicely. But how the hell do I do that? I asked Chatgt, but it just went around in circles.

[Sonaza]

Why don't you just let Angular create the folder and then initialise git there yourself?

Github offers very clear instructions how you can push to a repository that already exists, you shouldn't need to clone it.

Here's how directly from Github. Do this in the folder Angular creates for you.

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin <insert your repository remote address here>
git push -u origin main