Huge number of files generated for every Angular project

Question

I wanted to start a simple hello world app for Angular.

When I followed the instructions in the official quickstart the installation created 32,000 files in my proje

Answer 1

Angular itself has lots of dependencies, and the beta version of CLI downloads four times more files.

This is how to create a simple project will less files ("only" 10K files) https://yakovfain.com/2016/05/06/starting-an-angular-2-rc-1-project/