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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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Previewing photos with CesiumJS

The next feature of our application will be to display all the photos we have taken with the camera on a 3D map. The CesiumJS library provides a viewer with a 3D globe that we can use to visualize various things, such as images in specific locations. This new feature of our application will consist of the following:

  • Configuring CesiumJS
  • Displaying photos on the viewer

We will begin by learning how to set up the CesiumJS library.

Configuring CesiumJS

The CesiumJS library is an npm package that we can install to start working with 3D maps and visualizations:

  1. Run the following npm command to install CesiumJS:
    npm install cesium
    
  2. Open the angular.json configuration file and add the following entries in the assets array of the build architect option:
    {
      "glob": "**/*",
      "input": "node_modules/cesium/Build/Cesium/Workers",
      "output&quot...