Book Image

Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications - Second Edition

By : Doguhan Uluca
Book Image

Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications - Second Edition

By: Doguhan Uluca

Overview of this book

This second edition of Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications is updated with in-depth coverage of the evergreen Angular platform. You’ll start by mastering Angular programming fundamentals. Using the Kanban method and GitHub tools, you’ll build great-looking apps with Angular Material and also leverage reactive programming patterns with RxJS, discover the flux pattern with NgRx, become familiar with automated testing, utilize continuous integration using CircleCI, and deploy your app to the cloud using Vercel Now and GCloud. You will then learn how to design and develop line-of-business apps using router-first architecture with observable data anchors, demonstrated through oft-used recipes like master/detail views, and data tables with pagination and forms. Next, you’ll discover robust authentication and authorization design demonstrated via integration with Firebase, API documentation using Swagger, and API implementation using the MEAN stack. Finally, you will learn about DevOps using Docker, build a highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, capture user behavior with Google Analytics, and perform load testing. By the end of the book, you’ll be familiar with the entire gamut of modern web development and full-stack architecture, learning patterns and practices to be successful as an individual developer on the web or as a team in the enterprise.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
15
Another Book You May Enjoy
16
Index

Introduction to Angular and Its Concepts

At first, there was HTML, then DHTML. Technologists invented new technologies like Java, JavaScript, PHP, and many others to deliver interactive experiences over the browser. The holy grail of programming was writing a program once and running it everywhere. In a flash, the era of Single-Page Applications (SPAs) was born. SPAs tricked the browser into thinking that a single index.html could house entire applications containing many pages. Backbone.js, Knockout.js, and Angular.js all came and went. Everyone reeling from unmanaged complexity and JavaScript-framework-of-the-week syndrome looked for a savior. Then came React, Angular, and Vue. They promised to fix all problems, bring about universally reusable web components, and make it easier to learn, develop, and scale web applications. And, so they did! Some better than others. The adolescent history of the web has taught us a couple of essential lessons. First, change is inevitable...