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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)

Creating a service for logging activities

The goal of this chapter is to provide a way to keep track of all user activities within a task management application. For that purpose, we'll need a system that will allow us to log activities within components and access previously logged activities.

Within this chapter, we'll only track activities on projects. However, the activity tracker can be used in any feature within our application. We're going to use TypeScript discriminated unions to describe our activities. Let's jump right into it and start by creating the model used within our new activities feature.

Let's open our model file, located in src/app/model.ts, and add the following changes:


export type ActivityAlignment = 'left' | 'right';

export interface ActivitySliderSelection {
start: number;
end: number;
}

export interface...