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Learning Angular for .NET Developers

By : Rajesh Gunasundaram
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Learning Angular for .NET Developers

By: Rajesh Gunasundaram

Overview of this book

Are you are looking for a better, more efficient, and more powerful way of building front-end web applications? Well, look no further, you have come to the right place! This book comprehensively integrates Angular version 4 into your tool belt, then runs you through all the new options you now have on hand for your web apps without bogging you down. The frameworks, tools, and libraries mentioned here will make your work productive and minimize the friction usually associated with building server-side web applications. Starting off with building blocks of Angular version 4, we gradually move into integrating TypeScript and ES6. You will get confident in building single page applications and using Angular for prototyping components. You will then move on to building web services and full-stack web application using ASP.NET WebAPI. Finally, you will learn the development process focused on rapid delivery and testability for all application layers.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 9. What s New in Angular and ASP.NET Core

We started this book with a discussion on Angular, building a hello world application, and the core architecture of Angular. Then, we dived into the building blocks of Angular. Next, we discussed the basics of TypeScript and how to use TypeScript in writing Angular applications. Later, we walked through creating an Angular single-page application in Visual Studio and learned about RESTful services and creating a RESTful service using Web API for Angular applications. After that, we did a complete step-by-step walk-through on creating an application using Angular, ASP.NET MVC, and Web API in Visual Studio. Finally, we learned about testing Angular applications using Karma and Jasmine.

This chapter will discuss what is new in Angular and ASP.NET Core. We will cover the following topics:

  • Ahead-of-Time compilation
  • Update on Templates
  • Introducing titlecase pipes
  • Simplified parameter passing in HTTP
  • Overriding templates in testing
  • Introducing the Meta...