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Angular Design Patterns

By : Mathieu Nayrolles
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Angular Design Patterns

By: Mathieu Nayrolles

Overview of this book

This book is an insightful journey through the most valuable design patterns, and it will provide clear guidance on how to use them effectively in Angular. You will explore some of the best ways to work with Angular and how to use it to meet the stability and performance required in today's web development world. You’ll get to know some Angular best practices to improve your productivity and the code base of your application. We will take you on a journey through Angular designs for the real world, using a combination of case studies, design patterns to follow, and anti-patterns to avoid. By the end of the book, you will understand the various features of Angular, and will be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Architectural overview

In this section, I will present the main building blocks of Angular applications: Service, Component, Template, and Directive. We will also learn what problems are solved by dependency injection, decorators, and zones.

Now, if you picked this book off the (virtual) shelf, you likely have some experience with Angular and want to improve your applications with good practices and design patterns. Therefore, you should have some knowledge about the general architecture of Angular building blocks.

Nevertheless, a quick and pragmatic reminder should not hurt much, and we can be sure that we have a solid architectural basis to build our patterns upon.

Here is an overview of how the main Angular 2 building blocks interact with each other:

High-level architecture of an Angular 2 application

In what follows, I will present an example of each Angular 2 building block...