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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)

Enhancing SEO capabilities

SEO is the process of optimizing a website to be correctly indexed from a web crawler. A web crawler is a special-purpose software that is present on most search engines and can identify and index websites so that they are easily discoverable and linkable through their platforms.

Angular Universal does a great job of SEO by prerendering content during build time. Some web crawlers cannot execute JavaScript and build the dynamic content of an Angular application. Prerendering with Angular Universal eliminates the need for JavaScript, thus allowing web crawlers to do their best to identify the web application.

We can also help SEO by defining several tags in the head element of the main index.html file of an Angular application, such as title, viewport, and charset:

index.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>GhPortfolio</title>
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