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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By : Gion Kunz
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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By: Gion Kunz

Overview of this book

Mastering Angular Components will help you learn how to invent, build, and manage shared and reusable components for your web projects. Angular components are an integral part of any Angular app and are responsible for performing specific tasks in controlling the user interface. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book begins by helping you build basic layout components, along with developing a fully functional task-management application using Angular. You’ll then learn how to create layout components and build clean data and state architecture for your application. The book will even help you understand component-based routing and create components that render Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll be able to visualize data using the third-party library Chartist and create a plugin architecture using Angular components. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the component-based architecture in Angular and have the skills you need to build modern and clean user interfaces.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Purifying our task list

In the previous three sections, we looked into the basics of using immutable data structures and that Angular can be configured to assume that components only change when their input changes. We learned about the concept of "pure" components and how we can configure Angular's change detection to gain some performance benefits. We also learned about the concept of container components to separate our UI components from our application state.

Within this section, we would like to refactor our application to include our newly learned skills about immutability, "pure" components, and container components.

Let's start with our existing task list component. Currently, this component is directly interacting with data coming from the task service. However, we have learned that "pure" UI components should never directly retrieve...