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Angular Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Alvaro Camillo Neto
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Book Image

Angular Design Patterns and Best Practices

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By: Alvaro Camillo Neto

Overview of this book

Single page applications (SPAs) have become the standard for most web experiences. Angular, with its batteries-included approach, has emerged as a powerful framework for simplifying the development of these interfaces by offering a comprehensive toolbox. This book guides you through the Angular ecosystem, uncovering invaluable design patterns and harnessing its essential features. The book begins by laying a strong foundation, helping you understand when and why Angular should be your web development framework of choice. The next set of chapters will help you gain expertise in component design and architecting efficient, flexible, and high-performing communication patterns between components. You’ll then delve into Angular's advanced features to create forms in a productive and secure way with robust data model typing. You'll also learn how to enhance productivity using interceptors to reuse code for common functionalities, such as token management, across various apps. The book also covers micro frontend architecture in depth to effectively apply this architectural approach and concludes by helping you master the art of crafting tests and handling errors effortlessly. By the end of this book, you'll have unlocked the full potential of the Angular framework.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Reinforcing the Foundations
7
Part 2: Leveraging Angular’s Capabilities
12
Part 3: Architecture and Deployment

Deploying the backend

Before preparing our gym diary project for production, let’s first upload the backend to a cloud service so that our page has access to the data.

We chose the Azure service for this book, but the concepts in this chapter can also be applied to other cloud services, such as AWS (https://aws.amazon.com) and GCP (https://cloud.google.com).

The backend of this example does not use a database and was built using the NestJS framework (https://nestjs.com/), which actually has an architecture completely inspired by Angular, but for the backend! This framework allows you to add cloud deployment capabilities with Azure. To prepare your backend for deployment, in the command line of your operating system, in the project folder (/gym-diary-backend), run the following commands:

npm install @schematics/angular
nest add @nestjs/azure-func-http

The first command installs the Angular Schematic package, which will be used to build the application.

The nest...