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Angular Design Patterns

By : Mathieu Nayrolles
Book Image

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)

AJAX overkill

If your application is a bit more than a throwaway prototype or a glorified one-pager, you are likely dealing with remote APIs. These remotes APIs, in turn, are communicating with a backend layer (for example, PHP, Ruby, or Golang) and databases (for example, MySQL, MS SQL, or Oracle).

While this book focuses on Angular application, we cannot ignore the fact that they do not usually exist by themselves. Indeed, any meaningful application will need to pull and push data from/to somewhere.

With that in mind, let's imagine that your application is some sort of frontend for an online e-commerce site such as Amazon. This made-up application would certainly have a profile page where your users can see their past and ongoing commands.

Let's further specify our application by imagining that your APIs, endpoints are specified as follows:

GET /orders

This returns...