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Angular Projects - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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Book Image

Angular Projects - Third Edition

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By: Aristeidis Bampakos

Overview of this book

Angular Projects isn't like other books on Angular – this is a project-based guide that helps budding Angular developers get hands-on experience while developing cutting-edge applications. In this updated third edition, you’ll master the essential features of the framework by creating ten different real-world web applications. Each application will demonstrate how to integrate Angular with a different library and tool, giving you a 360-degree view of what the Angular ecosystem makes possible. Updated to the newest version of Angular, the book has been revamped to keep up with the latest technologies. You’ll work on a PWA weather application, a mobile photo geotagging application, a component UI library, and other exciting projects. In doing so, you’ll implement popular technologies such as Angular Router, Scully, Electron, Angular service workers, Jamstack, NgRx, and more. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to build Angular apps using a variety of different technologies according to your or your client’s needs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Creating our first Angular application

To create a fresh new Angular application, we must execute the ng new command of the Angular CLI, passing the name of the application as an option:

ng new my-app

The ng new command is used to create a new Angular application or a new Angular workspace. An Angular workspace is an Angular CLI project containing one or more Angular applications, some of which can be Angular libraries. So, when we execute the ng new command, we create an Angular workspace with an Angular application by default.

In the previous command, the name of our Angular application is my-app. Upon executing the command, the Angular CLI will ask some questions to collect as much information as possible regarding the nature of the application we want to create:

  1. Initially, it will ask if we want to enable Angular analytics:
    Would you like to share pseudonymous usage data about this project with the Angular Team at Google under Google's Privacy...