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Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications - Second Edition

By : Doguhan Uluca
Book Image

Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications - Second Edition

By: Doguhan Uluca

Overview of this book

This second edition of Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications is updated with in-depth coverage of the evergreen Angular platform. You’ll start by mastering Angular programming fundamentals. Using the Kanban method and GitHub tools, you’ll build great-looking apps with Angular Material and also leverage reactive programming patterns with RxJS, discover the flux pattern with NgRx, become familiar with automated testing, utilize continuous integration using CircleCI, and deploy your app to the cloud using Vercel Now and GCloud. You will then learn how to design and develop line-of-business apps using router-first architecture with observable data anchors, demonstrated through oft-used recipes like master/detail views, and data tables with pagination and forms. Next, you’ll discover robust authentication and authorization design demonstrated via integration with Firebase, API documentation using Swagger, and API implementation using the MEAN stack. Finally, you will learn about DevOps using Docker, build a highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, capture user behavior with Google Analytics, and perform load testing. By the end of the book, you’ll be familiar with the entire gamut of modern web development and full-stack architecture, learning patterns and practices to be successful as an individual developer on the web or as a team in the enterprise.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Another Book You May Enjoy
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Index

Collecting analytics

Now that our site is up and running, we need to start collecting metrics to understand how it is being used. Metrics are key to operating a web application.

Google Analytics has many facets. The main three are as follows:

  1. Acquisition, which measures how visitors arrive at your website
  2. Behavior, which measures how visitors interact with your website
  3. Conversions, which measure how visitors completed various goals on your website

Here's a look at the BEHAVIOR | Overview page from my website https://thejavascriptpromise.com/:

Figure 14.1: Google Analytics behavior overview

https://thejavascriptpromise.com/ is a simple single-page HTML site, hence the metrics are quite simple. Let's go over the various metrics on the screen:

  1. Pageviews shows the number of visitors.
  2. Unique Pageviews shows the number of unique visitors.
  3. Avg. Time on Page shows the amount of time each user spent on the site...