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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)

A conceptual overview of Angular

Before we dive into the different parts of Angular, let's get a conceptual overview of how everything fits together. Let's take a look at the following diagram:

Figure 1

Figure 1 to Figure 4 show the main Angular concepts and the connections between them. The main purpose of these diagrams is to illustrate the core blocks for building single-page applications with Angular, and their relations.

Component is the main building block we will use to create the user interface of our applications with Angular. The Component block is a direct successor of directive, which is the primitive for attaching behavior to the DOM. Components extend directives by providing further features, such as a template, which can be used to render composition of directives. Inside the template, different expressions can reside:

Figure 2

The preceding diagram...