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Angular Projects - Second Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
Book Image

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)

Adding a WYSIWYG editor library for Angular

We will kick off our project by creating a WYSIWYG editor as a standalone Angular application first. Use the Angular CLI to create a new Angular application from scratch:

ng new my-editor --defaults

We pass the following options to the ng new command:

  • my-editor: Defines the name of the application
  • --defaults: Defines CSS as the preferred stylesheet format of the application and disables routing because our application will consist of a single component that will host the editor

A WYSIWYG editor is a rich text editor, such as Microsoft Word. We could create one from scratch using the Angular framework, but it would be a time-consuming process, and we would only re-invent the wheel. The Angular ecosystem contains a wide variety of libraries to use for this purpose. One of them is the ngx-wig library, which has no external dependencies, just Angular! Let's add the library to our application and learn how to use...