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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

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how we can use TypeScript to create better-quality code with less effort, increasing our productivity. We learned about basic TypeScript types, such as number, string, and Array.

We also studied creating classes, interfaces, and type aliases, and how we can choose and mix these types of structures to make our code cleaner and more maintainable.

Finally, we learned about TypeScript’s type inference mechanism and how we can use the concept of type guards to further improve the type-checking mechanism. With these concepts, we also became familiar with the unknown type, which provides a better alternative to the any type.

In the next chapter we will learn about the basics of the interfaces of an Angular project, that is, the Components.