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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)

Interacting with the clipboard

The Angular CDK library contains a collection of Angular artifacts that we can use to interact with the system clipboard. Specifically, it includes a directive for copying data to the clipboard and an event binding for taking additional action when the content has been copied. Let's see how we can integrate both in our component library, as follows:

  1. Execute the following command of the Angular CLI to create a new Angular component in the library:
    ng generate component copy-button --project=ui-controls --export
  2. Export the newly generated component from the public-api.ts file, as follows:
    export * from './lib/ui-controls.service';
    export * from './lib/ui-controls.component';
    export * from './lib/ui-controls.module';
    export * from './lib/card-list/card-list.component';
    export * from './lib/card';
    export * from './lib/copy-button/copy-button.component';
  3. Open the ui-controls.module...