What does bootstrap mean in an angular js tutorial?

Question

The tutorial keeps referencing the term bootstrapping but when I search the term I see a link to a framework by twitter. Are they talking about something specific like this or something more general?

Answer 1

In a very simple term you can understand it as initializing, or starting, your Angular app.

The wiki says

In general parlance, bootstrapping usually refers to the starting of a self-sustaining process that is supposed to proceed without external input. In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed. ........

"A different use of the term bootstrapping is to use a compiler to compile itself, by first writing a small part of a compiler of a new programming language in an existing language to compile more programs of the new compiler written in the new language."

The below image from the Bootstrap docs of AngularJS will make it clear.