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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)

Meta-programming with ES2016 decorators

JavaScript is a dynamic language that allows us to easily modify and/or alter the behavior to suit the programs we write. Decorators are a proposal to ES2016, and the design document at https://github.com/wycats/javascript-decorators describes their work as follows:

"...make it possible to annotate and modify classes and properties at design time."

Their syntaxes are quite similar to the annotations in Java, and they are even closer to the decorators in Python. ES2016 decorators are used commonly in Angular to define components, directives, and pipes, and to take advantage of the dependency injection mechanism of the framework. Most use cases of decorators involve altering the behavior to a predefined logic or adding some metadata to different constructs.

ES2016 decorators allow us to do a lot of fancy things by changing the behavior...