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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)

Keeping up with Activities

In this chapter, we'll build an activity log in our task management system, using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to build graphical components with Angular. SVG is the perfect candidate when it comes to complex graphical content, and by using Angular components, we can easily build encapsulated and reusable content.

Since we want to log all of the activities within our application, such as adding comments or renaming tasks, we are going to create a central repository for activities. We can then display these activities and render them as an activity timeline by using SVG.

To add an overview of all of the activities and to provide user input to narrow the range of activities displayed, we're going to create an interactive slider component. This component will use a projection to render timestamps, in the form of ticks and activities, directly...