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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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Adding a WYSIWYG editor library for Angular

We will kick off our project by creating a WYSIWYG editor as a Angular application. Use the Angular CLI to create a new Angular application from scratch:

ng new my-editor --defaults

We pass the following options to the ng new command:

  • my-editor: Defines the name of the application
  • --defaults: Defines CSS as the preferred stylesheet format of the application and disables routing because our application will consist of a single component that will host the editor

A WYSIWYG editor is a rich text editor, such as Microsoft Word. We could create one from scratch using the Angular framework, but it would be time-consuming, and we would only reinvent the wheel. The Angular ecosystem contains a wide variety of libraries for this purpose. One of them is the ngx-wig library, which has no external dependencies, just Angular! Let’s add the library to our application and learn how to use it:

  1. Use the...