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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)

Building an interactive activity slider component

In the previous topics, we covered the basics of working with SVG and dealing with SVG in Angular components. Now, it's time to apply our knowledge to the task management application and create some awesome components using SVG.

The first component we'll be creating in this context is an interactive slider that allows the user to select the time range of activities that he or she is interested in checking out. Displaying a simple HTML5 range input could be a solution, but since we've gained some SVG superpower, we can do better! We'll use SVG to render our own slider that will show existing activities as ticks on the slider. Let's look at a mock-up of the slider component that we're going to create:

A mock-up of the activity slider component

Our slider component will actually serve two purposes. It...