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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

By : Fernando Monteiro
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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

By: Fernando Monteiro

Overview of this book

Angular, considered as one of the most popular and powerful frontend frameworks, has undergone a major overhaul to embrace emerging web technologies so that developers can build cutting-edge web applications. This book gives you practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Angular with a Laravel Restful back end. The book begins with a thorough introduction to Laravel and Angular and its core concepts like custom errors messages, components, routers, and Angular-cli, with each concept being explained first, and then put into practice in the case-study project. With the basics covered, you will learn how sophisticated UI features can be added using NgBootstrao and a component-based architecture. You will learn to extend and customize variables from Bootstrap CSS framework. You will learn how to create secure web application with Angular and Laravel using token based authentication. Finally, you will learn all about progressive web applications and build and deploy a complete fullstack application using Docker and Docker-compose. By the end of this book, you'll gain a solid understanding of Angular 6 and how it interacts with a Laravel 5.x backend

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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5
Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5
Setting up the environment
The basic architecture of Laravel applications
Laravel application life cycle
Artisan command-line interface
MVC and routes
Connecting with a database
Summary
2
The Benefits of TypeScript
The Benefits of TypeScript
Installing TypeScript
Writing JavaScript code with static types
Understanding interfaces, classes, and generics in TypeScript
Working with modules
Summary
3
Understanding the Core Concepts of Angular 6
Understanding the Core Concepts of Angular 6
Angular 6 – smaller, faster, and easier
Angular and the component method for developing modern web applications
Installing the tools – Git, the Angular CLI, and VS Code plugins
Creating a simple Angular application
Simple deployment
Summary
4
Building the Baseline Backend Application
Building the Baseline Backend Application
Additional notes about Laravel with Docker
Using PHP Composer to scaffold a Laravel application
Setting up a MySQL database
Migrations and database seed
API documentation with the Swagger framework
Summary
5
Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 1
Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 1
Preparing the application and understanding what we are building
Eloquent ORM relationship
Creating controllers and routes
Summary
6
Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 2
Creating a RESTful API Using Laravel - Part 2
Dealing with request validation and error messages
Token-based authentication
Dealing with Laravel resources
Summary
7
Progressive Web Applications with the Angular CLI
Progressive Web Applications with the Angular CLI
Starting a web application with the Angular CLI
Building the baseline for a PWA
PWA in action
Creating boilerplate Angular components
Summary
8
Dealing with the Angular Router and Components
Dealing with the Angular Router and Components
Preparing the baseline code
Adding components to our application
Dealing with Angular routes
Configuring child routes for details pages
Building frontend views
Summary
9
Creating Services and User Authentication
Creating Services and User Authentication
Preparing the baseline code
Dealing with models and classes
Using the new HttpClient to deal with XHR requests
Dealing with the HttpErrorHandler service
How to use authorization headers
How to protect application routes with route guards
Summary
10
Frontend Views with Bootstrap 4 and NgBootstrap
Frontend Views with Bootstrap 4 and NgBootstrap
Preparing the baseline code
Installing the Bootstrap CSS framework
Writing Angular templates with Bootstrap
Setting up CORS on a Laravel backend
Connecting Angular services with application components
Dealing with Angular pipes, forms, and validation
Summary
11
Building and Deploying Angular Tests
Building and Deploying Angular Tests
Preparing the baseline code
Setting application linters
Understanding Angular tests
Writing unit and e2e tests
Application deployment
Summary
12
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Working with modules

Modules are very important when developing large-scale applications with TypeScript. They allow us to import and export code, classes, interfaces, variables, and functions. These functions are extremely common in applications with Angular.

However, they can only be accomplished by using a library, which could be Require.js for the browser, or Common.js for Node.js.

In the following sections, we will illustrate how we can use these features in practice.

Using the class export feature

Any declaration can be exported, as we mentioned previously; to do so, we just need to add the export keyword. In the following example, we will export the band class.

In your text editor, create a file called export.ts, and...

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