What this book covers
Chapter 1, Starting Projects the Right Way, reinforces the fundamentals of Angular, its principles, and how to configure your project and development environment to be as productive as possible.
Chapter 2, Organizing Your Application, explores best practices in organizing an Angular project and how to optimize your application’s performance by lazy loading Angular modules.
Chapter 3, TypeScript Patterns for Angular, delves into the framework’s base language, TypeScript, and helps you understand why it was chosen by the Angular team and how we can apply to our projects.
Chapter 4, Components and Pages, works with the base element of the framework, the component, and how we can structure our project to create concise and efficient applications.
Chapter 5, Angular Services and the Singleton Pattern, analyzes Angular services to separate business logic from presentation logic and best practices for communicating with the backend.
Chapter 6, Handling User Inputs: Forms, is where we will study the main way users interact with our applications, through forms, and how we can create reactive and easy-to-maintain forms.
Chapter 7, Routes and Routers, is where we will work with Angular’s routing mechanism and how to manage our applications’ routes in a secure and optimized way.
Chapter 8, Improving Backend Integrations: the Interceptor Pattern, is where we will apply the Interceptor design pattern to common tasks when dealing with backend communication, such as token management and user notification.
Chapter 9, Exploring Reactivity with RxJS, delves deeper into the RxJS library and how we can make the most of it for managing information flows and interactions in our projects.
Chapter 10, Design for Tests: Best Practices, discusses automated testing and how to prepare our project for this process, as well as exploring unit testing with the Jasmine and Karma libraries and end-to-end testing with the open source tool Cypress.
Chapter 11, Micro Frontend with Angular Elements, explores the micro frontend architecture and discusses when to use it and how to implement it in Angular using the Angular Elements library.
Chapter 12, Packaging Everything: Best Practices for Deployment, looks at the best practices for building and deploying our Angular applications to cloud environments. Using an example project, we will explore the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Chapter 13, The Angular Renaissance, explores how to keep ourselves and our applications up to date with the constant evolution of Angular and looks at incredible features such as Angular Signals, standalone components, and lazy loading components using the defer instruction.