# Angular Modules (NgModules) have landed in Angular RC5!
_Angular Modules_, also known as _NgModules_, are the powerful new way to organize and bootstrap your Angular application.
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Read more in the ["RC5 and NgModules" announcement](https://angularjs.blogspot.com).
Learn the details of NgModule in the [Angular Module](../guide/ngmodule.html) chapter.
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The new `@NgModule` decorator gives you module-level components, directives, and pipes without
the need to specify them repeatedly in every component of your application.
The `@NgModule` metadata give the Angular compiler the context needed so that you can use the same code
regardless of whether you are running Angular in [Ahead-of-time](../glossary.html#aot) or [Just
in Time](../glossary.html#jit) mode.
## How do I use them?
If you were previously writing an Angular application, your app should continue to work in RC5.
We’ve worked hard to ensure that applications that worked with RC4 continue to work while you migrate.
For this to work, we’re doing 2 things automatically for you:
* We create an implicit `NgModule` for you as part of the `bootstrap()` command
* We automatically hoist your components, pipes, and directives
While your application will continue to work today,
it’s important that you update your application to ensure future updates and deprecations don’t negatively affect you.
To make it easier, you can think of the process as having 5 steps.
1. **Update to RC5** - Your application should continue to work without modification, but it’s important that you are running the latest version of Angular.
2. **Create an _NgModule_** - Create the root `NgModule` that you’ll use to bootstrap your application.
3. **Update your bootstrap** - Bootstrap that module instead of your root component
4. **Update your 3rd party libraries** - Take advantage of the latest from Forms, Material, Http, and more
5. **Cleanup** - Clean up your code.
The deprecated classes, methods and properties will be removed from Angular very soon.
Prefer to look at code and diffs?
Check out the upgrade in [one commit](https://github.com/StephenFluin/ngmodule-migration/commit/9f9c6ae099346e491fc31d77bf65ed440e1f164c).
## 1. Update to RC5
If you use npm, you should be able to either update your `package.json` file and run `npm install`.
Or alternatively you can run the following command: