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Angular Projects - Second Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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Angular Projects - Second Edition

By: Aristeidis Bampakos

Overview of this book

Packed with practical advice and detailed recipes, this updated second edition of Angular Projects will teach you everything you need to know to build efficient and optimized web applications using Angular. Among the things you’ll learn in this book are the essential features of the framework, which you’ll master by creating ten different real-world web applications. Each application will demonstrate how to integrate Angular with a different library and tool. As you advance, you’ll familiarize yourself with implementing popular technologies, such as Angular Router, Scully, Electron, Angular service worker, Nx monorepo tools, NgRx, and more while building an issue tracking system. You’ll also work on a PWA weather application, a mobile photo geotagging application, a component UI library, and many other exciting projects. In the later chapters, you’ll get to grips with customizing Angular CLI commands using schematics. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to be able to build Angular apps using a variety of different technologies according to your or your client’s needs.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 1: Creating Your First Web Application in Angular

Angular is a popular and modern JavaScript framework that can run on different platforms additional to the web, such as desktop and mobile. Angular applications are written in TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that provides syntactic sugar such as strong typing and object-oriented techniques.

Angular applications are created and developed using a command-line tool made by the Angular team called the Angular CLI. It automates many development tasks, such as scaffolding, testing, and deploying an Angular application, which would take a lot of time to configure manually.

The popularity of the Angular framework is considerably reflected in its broad support of tooling. The Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor contains various extensions that enhance the development experience when working with Angular.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to Angular
  • Introduction to the Angular CLI...