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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By : Gion Kunz
Book Image

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)

Composition using the router

So far, we have achieved composition by including subcomponents in component templates directly. However, we'd now like to give the control to the router to compose our main application layout.

The following diagram provides an overview of the component architecture of our application, which we're going to enable for the router:

A component tree displaying routed container components (solid line) and components included via router outlets

After the changes that we're going to implement, the project container component is not directly included in our app component anymore. Instead, we use a router outlet in the template of our app component. This way, we can give control to the router and let it decide which component should be placed into the outlet. Currently, we only have the project component as a first-level route, but this will...