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Switching to Angular - Third Edition

By : Minko Gechev
Book Image

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)

Using TypeScript

Let's start writing some TypeScript!

In the following sections, we will take a look at different snippets showing some of the features of TypeScript. In order to be able to run the snippets and play with them yourself, you'll need to install the TypeScript compiler on your computer. Let's take a look at how to do this.

The easiest way to install TypeScript is using Node package manager (npm). I'd recommend that you use version 5.0.0 or a newer version of npm. If you don't have node.js and npm installed already, you can visit https://nodejs.org and follow the instructions there.

Installing TypeScript with npm

Once you have npm installed and running, verify that you have the latest version...