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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)

Ahead-of-time compilation in Angular

In this section, without going into deep technical details, we'll briefly explain what AOT compilation is in the context of Angular and what implication it may have on our projects.

The key focus in Angular is its extremely fast change detection mechanism. After exploring different options for detecting changes in the view model, the Angular team discovered that the change detection mechanism used in AngularJS can be improved dramatically using code generation. It turned out that it is possible to generate well-optimized code for the JavaScript virtual machine, which performs change detection and efficient rendering. After a lot of benchmarks, Google found out that this strategy is much more performant compared to the traditional (also known as dynamic) change detection mechanism.

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