Every Angular application needs global styles for typography, spacing, colors, and reusable utility classes that apply across all components. As the creator of CoreUI with over 12 years of Angular development experience since 2014, I’ve architected styling systems for numerous enterprise applications. Angular provides a dedicated styles.scss file (or styles.css) in the project root specifically for global styles that affect the entire application. This approach ensures consistent design while keeping component-specific styles isolated.

Creating a global .gitignore file allows you to ignore files across all Git repositories on your system, providing consistent file exclusion without duplicating patterns in every project. As the creator of CoreUI with 25 years of development experience since 2000, I’ve configured global .gitignore files on development machines to automatically exclude OS-specific files, editor configurations, and personal tools across all projects. The most efficient approach involves creating a global ignore file and configuring Git to use it system-wide through the core.excludesfile setting. This method ensures consistent ignore behavior across all repositories while reducing project-specific .gitignore maintenance overhead.