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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
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Understanding the Core Concepts of Angular 6

The Angular framework has become one of the most popular tools, around the world for the development of frontend applications. In addition to being very versatile (and very different from other libraries, such as React.js or Vue.js, which serve only one purpose), Angular is a complete framework and, with the new updates for Angular 6, we now have more resources available for creating amazing and fast web applications. In addition, the team behind Angular proposes two major updates annually.

Another strong point in favor of Angular is its inclusion of the Angular command-line interface (CLI) for creating web applications. This provides us with extra power; with a simple command in the Terminal, we can create our application's boilerplate code very quickly and easily. However, everything is not quite as sweet as we would like it...