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Expert Angular

By : Sridhar Rao Chivukula
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Expert Angular

By: Sridhar Rao Chivukula

Overview of this book

Got some experience of Angular under your belt? Want to learn everything about using advanced features for developing websites? This book is everything you need for the deep understanding of Angular that will set you apart from the developer crowd. Angular has introduced a new way to build applications. Creating complex and rich web applications, with a lighter resource footprint, has never been easier or faster. Angular is now at release 4, with significant changes through previous versions. This book has been written and tested for Angular release 4. Angular is a mature technology, and you'll likely have applications built with earlier versions. This book starts by showing you best practices and approaches to migrating your existing Angular applications so that you can be immediately up-to-date. You will take an in-depth look at components and see how to control the user journey in your applications by implementing routing and navigation. You will learn how to work with asynchronous programming by using Observables. To easily build applications that look great, you will learn all about template syntax and how to beautify applications with Material Design. Mastering forms and data binding will further speed up your application development time. Learning about managing services and animations will help you to progressively enhance your applications. Next you’ll use native directives to integrate Bootstrap with Angular. You will see the best ways to test your application with the leading options such as Jasmine and Protractor. At the end of the book, you’ll learn how to apply design patterns in Angular, and see the benefits they will bring to your development.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Preface

Learn how to build great applications with the Angular framework for any deployment target--be it mobile, desktop, or native apps.

The book covers everything that is required to write modern, intuitive, and responsive applications.

The book covers concepts and fundamentals along with detailed code snippets and examples that will help you jump-start and open up new ideas by learning the Angular framework.

The chapters in the book cover topics that will help any developer pick up Angular programming skills easily. At the same time, experienced and seasoned developers will learn master the skillset of migrating from the existing AngularJS framework and also learn advanced techniques and best practices covered throughout the book.

Along with great functionality, any application heavily relies on design aspects as well. The book will introduce you to and help you sharpen your design skills with Material Design and Bootstrap CSS.

Learn how to write and create reusable, testable, and maintainable services, forms, pipes, async programming, animations, routing, and much more.

Did we say testable? You bet. The book introduces you to Jasmine and the Protractor framework. While learning about the frameworks, we will learn to write unit test scripts using Jasmine and also end-to-end test scripts using the Protractor framework.

The journey of learning and mastering Angular skills will be fun, thought-provoking, and above all easy. Step-by-step guides helps users to implement the concepts in your applications and projects.