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Angular Projects - Third Edition

By : Aristeidis Bampakos
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Book Image

Angular Projects - Third Edition

5 (2)
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

Integrating Electron in the workspace

The Electron framework is an npm package that we can install using the following command:

npm install -D electron

The previous command will install the latest version of the electron npm package in the Angular CLI workspace. It will also add a respective entry into the devDependencies section of the package.json file of our project.

Electron is added to the devDependencies section of the package.json file because it is a development dependency of our application. It is used only to prepare and build our application as a desktop one and not during runtime.

Electron applications run on the Node.js runtime and use the Chromium browser to render. A Node.js application has at least a JavaScript file, usually called index.js or main.js, which is the main entry point of the application. Since we are using Angular and TypeScript as our development stack, we will start by creating a separate TypeScript file that will be finally...