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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)

Storing data in Firebase

The application will be able to store photos and their location in Firebase. We will use the Storage service to upload our photos and the Cloud Firestore database to keep their location. We will further expand our application in the following tasks:

  • Creating a Firebase project
  • Integrating the AngularFire library

First, we need to set up a new Firebase project for our application.

Creating a Firebase project

We can set up and configure a Firebase project using the Firebase console at https://console.firebase.google.com:

  1. Click on the Add project button to create a new Firebase project:
    Figure 6.10 – Create a new Firebase project

    Figure 6.10 – Create a new Firebase project

  2. Enter a name for your project and click the Continue button:
    Figure 6.11 – Enter the project name

    Figure 6.11 – Enter the project name

    Important note

    Firebase generates a unique identifier for your project, which is located underneath the project name and is used in various Firebase services.

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