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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

Displaying weather data

In this section, we will create an Angular application to display weather information for a given city. The user will enter the name of the city in an input field, and the application will use the OpenWeather API to get weather data for the specified city. We will cover the following topics in more detail:

  • Setting up the Angular application
  • Communicating with the OpenWeather API
  • Displaying weather information for a city

Let’s start by creating the Angular application first in the following section.

Setting up the Angular application

We will use the ng new command of the Angular CLI to create a new Angular application from scratch:

ng new weather-app --style=scss --routing=false

The preceding command will create a new Angular CLI application with the following properties:

  • weather-app: The name of the Angular application
  • --style=scss: Indicates that our Angular application will use the SCSS...