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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

Routes and navigation

Let’s improve our project by creating a home page with a simplified menu for our interface, thereby exploring the possibilities we can have with Angular routes. In the command line, we’ll use the Angular CLI to create a new module and the component page:

ng g m home --routing

In the preceding snippet, we first create a new module, and by using the --routing parameter, we instruct the Angular CLI to create the module along with the routing file. The following command creates the component we are working on:

ng g c home

For more details about the Angular CLI and modules, you can refer to Chapter 2, Organizing Your Application.

First, let’s create the template in the HTML file of the component we just created:

<div class="flex h-screen">
  <aside class="w-1/6 bg-blue-500 text-white">
    <nav class="mt-8">
      <ul class...