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Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By : Minko Gechev
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Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By: Minko Gechev

Overview of this book

Align your work to stable APIs of Angular, version 5 and beyond, with Angular expert Minko Gechev. Angular is the modern Google framework for you to build high-performance, SEO-friendly, and robust web applications. Switching to Angular, Third Edition, shows you how you can align your current and future development with Google's long-term vision for Angular. Gechev shares his expert knowledge and community involvement to give you the clarity you need to confidently switch to Angular and stable APIs. Minko Gechev helps you get to grips with Angular with an overview of the framework, and understand the long-term building blocks of Google's web framework. Gechev then gives you the lowdown on TypeScript with a crash course, so you can take advantage of Angular in its native, statically typed environment. You'll next move on to see how to use Angular dependency injection, plus how Angular router and forms, and Angular pipes, are designed to work for your projects today and in the future. You'll be aligned with the vision and techniques of the one Angular, and be ready to start building quick and efficient Angular applications. You'll know how to take advantage of the latest Angular features and the core, stable APIs you can depend on. You'll be ready to confidently plan your future with the Angular framework.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we considered the main reasons behind the lack of backward compatibility between AngularJS and Angular. We saw that the design decisions implemented in Angular were fueled by two things: the evolution of the web and the evolution of the frontend development, with the lessons learned from the development of AngularJS applications.

In the first section, you learned why we need to use the latest version of the JavaScript language, why to take advantage of web components and web workers, and why it's not worth integrating all these powerful tools in AngularJS.

We observed the current direction of frontend development and the lessons learned in the last few years. We described why the controller and scope were removed from Angular, and why the architecture of AngularJS was changed in order to allow server-side rendering for SEO-friendly, high-performance...