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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)

To get the most out of this book

This book will need a basic installation of Node.js on your Windows, Mac, or Linux machine. Since this book relies on Angular CLI 6.0.8, at least Node.js 8.9.0 is required.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Let's change the view encapsulation of our main component to use the ViewEncapsulation.None mode."

A block of code is set as follows:

import {Component, ViewEncapsulation} from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'mac-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html',
encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None
})
export class AppComponent {
title = 'mac';
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

...
import {TaskService} from './tasks/task.service';
...
@NgModule({
...
providers: [TaskService],
...
})
export class AppModule {
}

Sometimes, on large code excerpts that require you to implement code changes in existing code files, we use the following format:

  • New or replaced code parts are marked in bold
  • Already existing and irrelevant code parts are hidden using an ellipsis character

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

ng new mastering-angular-components --prefix=mac

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "You should be able to see the generated application app with a welcome message saying Welcome to mac!"

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.