In this chapter, we are going to craft a basic scaffold for our project that suits the needs of our chat application. Let's get started:

1. Create a new project folder.
2. Run the following command to initialize a new project:

      ng new chat-app

3. Regarding the question about Angular routing support, answer Yes or type y:

      Would you like to add Angular routing? (y/N)
      y

4. Regarding the question about stylesheet format, pick SCSS:

      Which stylesheet format would you like to use?
      SCSS

5. In the Angular CLI, you will see the following output:

6. Try out the app using the ng serve --open command:

We are doing well so far. Now, it's time to configure the Electron Shell.