I’m an Angular Developer, Not an AI Engineer — A Step-by-Step Guide to Building My First RAG App

Title: I’m an Angular Developer, Not an AI Engineer — A Step-by-Step Guide to Building My First RAG App

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# I’m an Angular Developer, Not an AI Engineer — A Step-by-Step Guide to Building My First RAG App | by Sumit Ranjan | Apr, 2026 | Medium

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When I first heard about terms like _embeddings_, _vector databases_, and _retrieval pipelines_, I assumed this was not for me.

As an Angular developer, I work with APIs, UI states, and components — not AI systems.

But after building a small project, I realized something:

RAG is not complex. It’s just a structured pipeline, very simila