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Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular

By : Bram Borggreve
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Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular

By: Bram Borggreve

Overview of this book

With the help of Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular, equip yourself with the skills required to create modern, progressive web applications that load quickly and efficiently. This fast-paced book is a great way to learn how to build an effective UX by using the new features of Angular 7 beta, without wasting efforts in searching for referrals. To start off, you'll install Angular CLI and set up a working environment, followed by learning to distinguish between the container and presentational components. You'll explore advanced concepts such as making requests to a REST API from an Angular application, creating a web server using Node.js and Express, and adding dynamic metadata. You'll also understand how to implement and configure a service worker using Angular PWA and deploy the server-side rendered app to the cloud. By the end of this book, you'll have developed skills to serve your users views that load instantly, while reaping all the SEO benefits of improved page indexing.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

1. Creating the Base Application

Learning Objectives

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to:

  • Build a modular Angular app using Angular CLI
  • Implement a reusable user interface module based on the Bootstrap framework
  • Implement application logic using a clean separation of concerns
  • Use services to retrieve data from a REST API
  • Use resolvers to make sure that the data is loaded before navigating to the page

This chapter introduces us to Angular CLI and how to use it to create a new application. Here, we will create the various components and implement the logic for our app.