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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

Communicating between Angular and Electron

According to the specifications of the project, the content of the WYSIWYG editor needs to be persisted in the local filesystem. Additionally, the content will be loaded from the filesystem upon application startup.

The Angular application handles any interaction between the WYSIWYG editor and its data using the renderer process, whereas the Electron application manages the filesystem with the main process. Thus, we need to establish an IPC mechanism to communicate between the two Electron processes as follows:

  • Configuring the Angular CLI workspace
  • Interacting with the editor
  • Interacting with the filesystem

Let’s start by setting up the Angular CLI project to support the desired communication mechanism.

Configuring the Angular CLI workspace

We need to modify several files to configure the workspace of our application:

  1. Open the main.ts file that exists in the src\electron folder...