Book Image

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)

Visualizing open tasks

In this section, we will create a line chart component using Chartist, which will display the open task progress of projects over time. To do this, we'll use a line chart with a specific interpolation that provides quantized steps, rather than lines with directly connected points.

We will also provide some interactivity, so that the user will be able to switch the displayed timeframe by using a toggle button. This will allow us to reuse the toggle UI component that we created in Chapter 2, Ready, Set, Go!

Preparing task data

First, let's look at the data that we have available in our system, when it comes to project tasks. The created attribute is set to the timestamp at the moment when the...